Previously, he worked as a field-based Research Associate in the Democratic Republic of the Congo for the University of California, Berkeley, on a project examining property tax reform. He also contributed to research at the Sorbonne Economics Centre (CNRS) and the Directorate for Evaluation, Forecasting and Performance (DEPP), the statistical department of the French Ministry of Education, as well as to sustainable development initiatives with an NGO in Tanzania.
He holds two master’s degrees, in Development Economics (Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University) and Statistics and Econometrics (University of Strasbourg), and specializes in development economics, public policy evaluation, and applied quantitative methods.