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Awards, Collaboration & Prize

Prize & Honors

  1. 2023 Associate Researcher - CERDI University of Clermont Ferrand - France;

  2. 2021 Laureate of the Highest Continental Contest in Higher Education (“Concours d’Agrégation CAMES”) - Benin;
  3. 2021 Visiting Professor at the University of Huelva (ERASMUS Plus) - Spain;
  4. 2021 Selected as a France-Africa Young leader - France;
  5. 2020 Member of the Pan-African Scientific Research Council - USA;
  6. 2018 Visiting Researcher at the Nordic African Institute – Sweden;
  7. 2015 Doctorate / PhD Thesis Nominated to 2015 CEDIMES Price (VIIIème edition) – France;
  8. 2014 Award to African Young Economist – International Economic Association - USA;
  9. 2014 Grant for participation and communication at a « Research workshop » of BEAC;
  10. 2013 Member – Young African Leaders Initiative Network (Mandela Washington Fellowship) – USA;
  11. 2013 Expert: Youth Partnership between the European Commission and European Youth Council;
  12. 2011 Grant «Young Researcher» - African Econometric Society;
  13. 2011 Fellowship for contribution to knowledge - World Business Institute – Australia;
  14. 2010 Scholarship for admission to the Ph.D. program at Université de Laval – Canada;
  15. 2000 Baccalaureate Scholarship, Ministry of Higher Education of Cameroon.

Fellowship, Scholarship & Research Grants

  1. 2022 Associate Researcher at the University of Clermont Auvergne (CERDI) – France (Ongoing);
  2. 2021 AfDB Senior Consultant – South Africa; (9months);
  3. 2020 AERC research grant – Kenya; (2years);
  4. 2014 Research Program of the WORLD BANK – USA; (7 months);
  5. 2014 AERC research grant – Kenya; (2 years);
  6. 2013 BEAC travel grant (Banque des Etats de l’Afrique Centrale) participation to a research meeting ;      
  7. 2012 Trust Africa / CRDI research grant – Sénégal / Canada; (2 years);
  8. 2011 Research Program of UNITED NATIONS– Economic Commission for Africa ; (9 months);
  9. 2009 Research grant at the UNIVERSITY OF FRIBOURG - Switzerland; (9 months);
  10. Winner of several travel funds for participation in international workshops.

Selected training & Certifications

  1. 2022: Training onThe role of schooling in developing countries”.BREAD-IGC ;
  2. 2016: Capacity building on “Lecture Methods and Research Skill Development” organized by the CEDIMES; Paris – France;
  3. 2014: Capacity Building “Modeling in Computable General Equilibrium” organized by the World Bank; Washington
  4. 2014: Course on “Programming and Financial Policies” organized by the IMF; Washington DC - USA.
  5. 2012: Participation in certified online training on: “Assessing Regional Integration in Africa” organized by UNITAR and UNECA; Geneva – Switzerland.
  6. 2012: Certified online training on: “Trade and Poverty” organized and financed by UNCTAD; Geneva – Switzerland.
  7. 2012: Certified training on “Research Communication Capacity Building: How to write a Policy Brief” organized by IDRC, (ODI) Overseas Development Institute and Trust Africa; Nairobi – Kenya.
  8. 2009: Certified training in: “Operational Risk Management” organized by the National Polytechnic School of Yaounde.
  9. 2008: Data Base Administrator accelerated training, National Polytechnic School of Yaounde University, Cameroon.

Conferences

Participated as grant winner to more than 90 international conferences since 2007 mainly organized by Universities and other organizations (UNU WIDER, UNUN INRA, UNU MERIT, AERC, CREPOL, AfDB, UNECA, PNUD, CNUCED, WHO, WTO, World Bank, IMF, ITC, WEA, CEPR, CSAE, AERC, UNCTAD, PEGNET, GDN, AFD, CERDI, FERDI, ADB … etc.);

20th – 22nd August 2025: Paper accepted for presentation at the 81st Annual Congress of the of the International Institute of Public Finance (IIPF) at the United States International University - Africa in Nairobi, Kenya.

23th June – 24th June 2025: participation as a speaker to the 13th Annual Africa Evidence Summit in Nairobi, Kenya.

7th – 8th April 2025: Participation as a speaker to the study days on the “geoeconomy of the criminality in Africa” of the Center of political and Strategic Research and Studies of the University of Yaoundé 2 Soa.

11th Décembre –  18th Décembre  2024: Participation as an organizer of the Regional congress of the West Region (2024 édition) at the West Region Office.

11th Décembre –  16th Décembre  2023: Participation as an organizer of the Regional congress of the West Region (2023 édition) at the West Region Office.

17th September –  10th October  2023: Visiting researcher at the Université de Clermont Auvergne (CERDI) for research development.

6th September 2023: Participated as a speaker at the African Financial Alliance on Climate change (AFAC) on the topic mobilising African’s Financial Sector for low Carbon and Climate resilient development in Nairobi, on the topic mobilising African’s Financial Sector for low Carbon and Climate resilient development in Nairobi, Kenya

14th – 15th  September 2023: Participated as a speaker at the conference Bio-Geosphere Africa 2023 on the topic: “Research for Diversity and Sustainable Development in the Face of Climate Change” at the University of Hohenheim in Stuttgart, Germany. (2023 BioGARD Conference).

27th – 28th June  2023: Participated as a speaker at the CREAMO and University of Lomé international conference on “Les économies africaines face aux défis du 21ième: quelles réponses pour un développement durable ?” at Lomé-Togo.

06th – 08th  June  2023: Participated as a speaker at the conference “Technological Innovations for Discovering Solutions to the World’s Greatest Current Challenges” organized by the Global Young Academy (GYA) in Kigali, Rwanda

17th – 18th  November  2022: Attended as a presenter at the International Congress on Economy, Finance, and Business (ICEFB-22) on the topic “Financial Development Benefits Of Banking Sector Globalization In Africa: Is There A Threshold Effect?”, jointly organized by the International Institute for Research in Science and Technology (IIRST); Madrid, Spain.

02nd – 04th  November  2022: Attended as a presenter at the Global Development Conference on the topic “Tax Policy For Sustainable Development”, jointly organized by the Global Development Network (GDN), Agence Française de Dévelopment (AFD), FERDI, French Ministry of Economics and Finance, University of Clermont Auvergne and Hewlett Foundation; Clermont Ferrand, France

26th – 28th  October  2022: Participation as a speaker at the international conference on the topic “Déconcentration, décentralisation et développement local en Afrique: Enjeux et perspectives” organized by the Faculty of Economics and Management of the University of Dschang.

27th – 28th  October  2022: Participated as a speaker at the “World Conference on Business, Economics and Finance (WCBEF-2022)”, organized by EURASIA Conferences held during October 27-28, 2022 at Valencia, Spain.

26th – 28th  October  2022: Member of the secretariat general, the scientific committee and the public relations committee of the organization of the international conference on the topic "decentralisation, deconcentration and local development in Afrique: problem and perspective" under the supervision of the MINESUP and the University of Dschang.

16 th -17 th May 2022: Partake at the UNU-WIDER Development Conference on the topic: The puzzle of peace – towards inclusive development in fragile contexts which takes place in Helsinki-Finland.

3rd _4 th march 2022: Attended the conference on mobilising science in response to crisis organized by the Academic Science of South Africa entitled “ Scientific advises in crisis: lessons learnt from Covid-19”

2nd -4th  March 2022: Participated as a discussant of the Chief Economist presentation of World Bank for Africa in a rentrée scientific in the faculty of economics and management science, university of Dschang.

9 th _10 th   December: Participated in the  Regional dialogue on climate change organized by TWAS-SAREP

4th _11 th December 2021: Participated in the Bi-annual workshop organized by AERC

30 th November 2021: Attended The conference organized by the International fair for young African researchers (IFYAR)   under the patronage of the ministry of scientific research and innovation.

12th _15 th  October 2021:   Attended the International seminars of investors in CEMAC organized by COSUMAF which took place in Douala, Cameroon.

16th_21 st August 2021:  Participated in a training session for the aggregation Concours organized by Universite de Lome’s Faculte des Sciences Economiques which took place at Lome - Togo.

8th _10 th   July 2021: Participatedin Islamic French Sumit on operational aspects of Islamic banking finance and Takaful in Tanzania Darussalam.

1 th _7 th  June 2021: Participated in the Virtual Bi-annual workshop organized by ARC

 16th _ 19th  March 2021: Attended the virtually Organized course organized by the Academy of Sciences Malaysia (ASM), The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and The World Academy of Sciences (TWAS) via the Zoom Platform.

6th March    2021: Participated in the Seminar on the reinforcement capacity of the term titled “ The identification of stakeholders, construction of the business network and stakeholders” held at the University of Dschang.

2nd December 2020: Participated in the conference titled “Potential expansion of commercial exchange between Quebec/Canada and Francophone Countries organized by Observatoire de la Francophonie Economique de l’Université de Monreal.

30th October 2020: Participated in the launch of the report “COVID-19 rapid emergency needs assessment vulnerable people”   which took place in South Africa.

26 th _28 th October 2020: Attended the Online conference on the empirical advances in monetary policy organized by Euro Area cycle Business Network.

6 th _8 th October 2020: Attended a conference for national development at MINRESI organized by Cameroon academy of science which took place at Yaounde.

2 nd _6 th November 2020: Attended the conference titled “Investing in SDGs “ organized by the centre for affordable housing finance for Africa which was done virtually.

25 th November 2020:  Participated in the meeting of the African institutional investors (AFMI) organized by UNDP.

25 th September 2020: Participated in the United Nations General Assembly virtual site events on innovative finance strategies for achieving SDG for all persons of African descent.

26 th june _10 th july 2020:  Participated in the international conference of young scientists organized by the Global Young Academy (GYA)

5 th _7 th june 2020: Participated in the virtual Institution for economic and social research GLO conference on the economic issues related to the Covid virus pandemic.

3 th _ 5th  January 2020: Participated at the Organizing Committee Conference of the African Finance and Economic Association (AFEA), ASSA Conference in San Diego California.

1 st  2019 - August 31 st ,2020 : Participated as a visiting researcher at the Laboratoire d'ingénierie financière de l'Université Laval (LABIFUL).

26 th _  27 th June   2020 : Participated in the United Nations University World Institute for development of economic research conference held in Helsinki, Finland.

23 th _ 27 th March  2020   Participated at the Pan African Youth Conference on African Unity and development of the African Youth Commission (AYCGA, 2020)at the Kenyatta International Convention Center.

4th  – 5th  December 2019: Participated in the AUC International conference for research on African challenges (ICRAC), No poverty, held in Cairo, Egypt.

1 st  December 2020: Participated at the opening and closing ceremonies of the International Fair for Young African Researchers (IFYAR)organized by the Scientific Center for Health (SCH) in Cameroon.

13 th December 2020: Attended the Extraordinary General Assembly of the CAYS, in the conference room of the CNE located in the Ministry of Scientific Research and Innovation.

10 th November 2020: Took part in the conference organized on African cooperated and sovereign listed bonds organized by the African financial institute of the African development bank which took place in the Ivory Coast.

28 th July _ 6 th August 2019: Participated at the “ 4th World Wide meeting of young Academics” conference at Da Nang Vietnam.

07 th _16 th October 2019: Took part in the training session of MINEPAD, MINFIP animation of training staff organized by UN Economic Commission for Africa (UNICA) with the collaboration of MINEPAT on the topic “Renforcement des capacities des gouvernements africains pour la redevabilité dans la planification nationale du development”.

9 th _ 17 th September  2019: Participated at the “ Transforming economies for better jobs ” conference at Bangkok, Thailand.

8 th _10 th July 2019:   Participated at the conference entitled “Financing African infrastructure: What role for development and regional integration which took place in Senegal.

5 th  June  2019: Participated as a founding member of the Cameroon Academy of Young Scientists (CAYS) to attend your induction ceremony, organised by the Cameroon Academy of Sciences (CAS).

24 th  -26 th  October 2019:  Attended the third Biennial Conference organized by the African Studies Association of Africa in East Africa at the United States International University-Africa, Nairobi, Kenya.

11 th  _ 13 th September 2019: Participated in the United Nations University World Institute for development of economics research conference held in Bangkok, Thailand

19 th     September 2018: The Foretia Foundation’s Small Business Forum in Yaoundé at Maison Provincial Centre D`Accueil Mvolye.

1 st -7 th  December 2018: Participated in the African economic conference on “Addressing regional and continental integration for African development” organized by UNI WIDER at Kigali, Rwanda.

28 th - 2018: Participated at the Global Young Academy’s Global State of Young Scientists (GloSYS) Africa Workshop at the NEF Global Gathering, Kigali.

 17 th – 19 th  October 2017: Attended the Conference of the eighth edition of Housing Finance in Africa Yearbook 2017 at the African Union for Housing Finance, held on in Kampala, Uganda.

19 th _    23 th June   2017  Participated as a worker in the 19th World Congress of the International Economics Association held in Mexico.

30 th December _ 4 th January 2015: Participated at the International African Population Conference held in Johannesburg, South Africa and organized by the Council Union for African Population Studies (UAPS).

25 th _27 th  June 2014:  Attended the conference organized by the African Development Bank’s centre for natural resources addressing development and environmental issues.

11th  14th   February 2014: Organization and participation in the Capacity Building for parliamentarians. Abuja, Nigeria.

28th - 30th   January 2014: Participation to an international conference organized by IDRC on “Youth employment in Sub Saharan Africa-Putting youths to work through research and practice”, Hôtel Pullman. Dakar, Sénégal.

13th   16th  December 2013: Participation in the IZA/DFID Short Course on Evaluation of Training Programs. Nairobi, Kenya.

05th - 06th December 2013: Communication at the ACET-IFPRI Joint conference on the quest for economic transformation in Africa. Nairobi, Kenya.

18th    22  November  2013:  Communication at  “Beyond  Rio  +20:  emerging challenges and opportunities” international conference. Accra – Ghana.

31th - 03rd October 2013: Communication at 2013 African Economic Conference. Johannesburg - South Africa.

20th   25th  October 2013: Communication at the first research workshop of BEAC. Yaounde – Cameroon.

10th  12th    September  2013:  Organization  and  participation to  the  International  Workshop on  Standards  of Financial and Economic Analysis. Tunis, Tunisia.

22nd  24th   September 2013: Participant as Expert at the UNECA Expert group on Africa Youth Report 2013. Addis Ababa - Ethiopia.

22nd  24th   May 2013: Participate as Consultant in the 2013 Africa Youth Report expert peer review meetings. Addis Ababa – Ethiopia.

24th  30 April 2013: Communication at the 6th   Doctoral Theses Conference organized by IBS Hyderabad and participation in a half-day workshop on research methodology. Dontanapalli – India.

04th     08th      March  2013:  Scientific committee member and participant in the third  African  Economist Conference organized by African Union. Dakar – Senegal.

18th  20th    September 2012: Communication to  UNIDEP  conference on  “50  years  Development  Planning in

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