Areas of interest:

Macroeconomics, Economics and Monetary Policy, Banking Intermediation, International Economics 

Education

• December 2015. PhD in Macroeconomics, Interuniversity Post-Graduate Program, Cheikh Anta Diop University, Senegal
• June 2002. Advanced Studies Degree (DEA) in Macroeconomics, Majoring in Money-Finance-Banking, Interuniversity Post-Graduate Program, Cheikh Anta Diop University, Senegal
• June 1998. Master's degree in Economics, University of Lomé, Togo

Professional Experience:

• Since September 2016. Researcher at the BCEAO (West African Center for Banking Studies and Training)
• 2009-2015. Freelance consultant in economic research and analysis 
• 2012 Visiting scholar at the Institute for Capacity Development (International Monetary Fund, Washington, D.C., USA)
• 2006-2008. Manager, Payment Systems and Methods, BCEAO Main Branch Office, Dakar
• 2003-2005. Assistant to the Payment Systems and Instruments Implementation Project Lead, BCEAO Headquarters
• 1998-1999. Research Assistant, Economic Reforms and Gender Analysis in Africa Project, at the University of Lomé. 

Research and Modeling Work

• 2020. Détermination du seuil de définition des Systèmes Financiers Décentralisés (SFD) de grande taille dans l'UEMOA 
• 2020. Exploration des sources des asymétries des chocs dans l'UEMOA, AERC Research Paper, Awaiting publication
• 2019. Implementation of the External Balance Assessment (EBA-Lite) Methodology, (as part of a team)
• 2018. Déterminants de la dynamique des réserves de change dans l’UEMOA, (as part of a team)
• 2018. Introduction of a dynamic stochastic general equilibrium model (DSGE), (as part of a team)
• 2017. Determination of a reference rate for the WAEMU interbank market
• 2016. Implementation of a Macroeconometric Model for Forecasting and Simulation (MAPRES), (as part of a team)
• 2015. PhD Thesis. Hétérogénéité des structures et performances économiques, et mécanismes de transmission de la politique monétaire unique dans la zone UMOA.
• 2015. PhD Thesis. Hétérogénéité des structures et performances économiques, et mécanismes de transmission de la politique monétaire unique dans la zone UMOA.
• 2014. "Transmission Mechanisms of Monetary Policy in Countries of the WAMU: An Empirical Study”. AERC Research Paper 296, 2014, Nairobi.

Awards and Distinctions

• The BCEAO's Abdoulaye Fadiga Prize for the promotion of research in economics (2014 Edition) 
• Research grants from the African Economic Research Consortium, Nairobi, Kenya
• Interuniversity Post-Graduate Program Scholarships and Fellowships