Areas of interest:

Banking and Financial Economics, Economic and Monetary Integration, Macroeconomics 

Education:

• December 2018. PhD in Economics, International Economics, University of Lomé, Togo
• March 2014. Master's degree in Research, International Économics, University of Lomé, Togo
• February 2008. Master's degree in Management, University of Lomé, Togo

Professional Experience:

• Since September 2019. Researcher at the BCEAO (West African Center for Banking Studies and Training)
• 2009-2019. Executive at the Banque Sahélo-Saharienne pour l'Investissement et le Commerce (BSIC-TOGO)

Research and Modeling Work

• 2020. Risque systémique et de contagion dans le système bancaire de l'UEMOA : analyse en réseau et proposition d'un indice
• 2020. Choc économique et risque systémique dans l'UMOA : essai d'évaluation de l'impact de la Covid-19 à l'aide d'un modèle de réseau
• 2019. “Fiscal Convergence in Africa: What Role for Regional Economic Communities?” (with Sampawende J-A Tapsoba, Daouda Sembene and Ismaël Issifou), Journal of Economic Integration, 34(2):214-235. https://doi.org/10.11130/jei.2019.34.2.214
• 2018. “Survival of WAEMU banks: are the new capital requirements relevant?” BCEAO Economic and Monetary Review (EMR), No. 24, December 2018, pp. 9-47.
• 2018. “Fiscal convergence in Africa: what role for regional economic communities?” (with Sampawende J-A Tapsoba, Daouda Sembene and Ismaël Issifou) Revue d’Economie du Développement, 2018/3 Vol. 26, pp. 5-31. https://doi.org/10.3917/edd.323.0005 
• 2017. “Regional integration and bilateral agricultural trade in West Africa”, African Development Review, Vol. 29, No. S2, 2017, 147-162. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8268.12269
• 2013. “A la recherche de la dynamique du pass-through des taux d’intérêt dans l’UEMOA” (with Koffi Sodokin), Revue Economique et Monétaire (REM) de la BCEAO, No. 13, June 2013, pp. 9-41. 

Awards and Distinctions

• BCEAO Abdoulaye Fadiga Prize for the promotion of research in economics (2018 Edition)
• Research grants from the African Economic Research Consortium (AERC), Nairobi, Kenya 
• Dissertation and thesis grants from the Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA), Dakar, Senegal.