PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

• Since October 2016: Researcher at the Central Bank of West African States (BCEAO) Headquarters, Dakar, Senegal.
• 2017-2019: Course and seminar leader at the West African Center for Banking Studies and Training (COFEB)
• February - March 2016 Visiting professor at the Catholic University of West Africa (UCAO) in Abidjan. 
• 2013-2016: Researcher and lecturer at the Center for Studies, Training and Research in Development (CEFRED) / Faculty of Economic Sciences and Management (FASEG), University of Abomey-Calavi (UAC), Benin..
• 2013-2016: Lecturer at several private universities in Benin.

EDUCATION

• February 2016: PhD in Economics
  University of Abomey-Calavi, Cotonou, Benin
  Major: Applied Macroeconomics
• August 2010: Advanced Studies Degree (DEA) / Master's in Research
  University of Abomey-Calavi (UAC), FASEG
• May 2008: Master's degree in Economics
  University of Abomey-Calavi (UAC) / Faculty of Economics and Management (FASEG)

RESEARCH WORK

Trinnou, G. Mathieu (2020), “Alignement des monnaies des Etats membres de la CEDEAO dans le cadre du passage à la monnaie unique de la Communauté”, Study and research paper, in progress.

Trinnou, G. Mathieu and Gbenou, K. D. Anatole (2019), “Simulations sur l'impact du régime de change flexible dans le cadre de l'avènement de la monnaie unique de la CEDEAO”, Study paper, N°DE/19/03. BCEAO, December.

Trinnou, G. Mathieu and Tankari Ango, Djafarou (2018), “Impact de la mise en place du mécanisme de change de la CEDEAO sur les économies de l'UEMOA”, Study and research paper. 

Trinnou, G. Mathieu (2017), “Capitalisation bancaire et prise de risque des banques dans l'UEMOA”, Study and research paper, DER/17/02, BCEAO, December.

Trinnou, G. Mathieu and Igue, C. Babatoundé. (2015), “Bank credit risk and monetary policy in the West African Economic and Monetary Union (WAEMU)” Economic and Monetary Review (EMR), BCEAO, N°18, December. 

Trinnou, G. Mathieu (2014), “Implémentation du stress-test” macro-prudentiel du risque de crédit bancaire dans l'Union Economique et Monétaire Ouest Africaine (UEMOA)”, Article selected and presented at the First Symposium of the Association d'Economie Théorique et Appliquée (AETA) held in Cotonou-Benin, November 11-13, 2014, on the following theme: Development, Financial Markets, Environment, Agriculture, Public Policies and Gender. 

RESEARCH PRESENTATIONS

• October 2019: Member of a BCEAO delegation attending the international symposium organized by the Centre d'Etudes, de Documentation et de Recherche Economiques et Sociales (CEDRES), Ouagadougou, Burkina.
  Theme : “Repenser l'économie du développement : les défis d'une Afrique Nouvelle”
  Sub-theme presented by the BCEAO : “La gestion de la transition vers l’établissement d’une monnaie unique crédible au sein de la CEDEAO” (Managing the Transition to a Credible Single Currency within ECOWAS) 
• November 2014: Participation in the symposium of the Association d'Economie Théorique et Appliquée (AETA), Cotonou, Benin Theme: Development, financial markets, environment, agriculture, public policies and gender.                         
  Article selected and presented: “Implémentation du stress-test” macro-prudentiel du risque de crédit bancaire dans l'Union Economique et Monétaire Ouest Africaine (UEMOA)” (Implementation of the macro-prudential stress-test of bank credit risk in the West African Economic and Monetary Union (WAEMU)).

AWARDS, SCHOLARSHIPS AND DISTINCTIONS

• September 2015: Special Encouragement Prize at the 2014 edition of the Abdoulaye Fadiga
  Prize for excellence in research awarded by the Central Bank of West African States (BCEAO), for researchers who are nationals of the WAEMU zone.
• 2011-2014: Doctoral Fellowship in Economics
  Excellence Scholarship awarded under the New Interuniversity Postgraduate Program (NPTCI) in Economics, a competitive and selective program involving 18 Francophone universities in Africa.

Other: Macroeconometric modeling: BCEAO's MAPRES and DSGE models (as part of a  team)