CISEA 2026 | CONFERENCE INTERNATIONALE DE STATISTIQUE ET D’ECONOMIE APPLIQUEE

Kevin Chika URAMA is Acting Chief Economist and Vice-President for Economic Governance and Knowledge...

Kevin Chika URAMA is Acting Chief Economist and Vice-President for Economic Governance and Knowledge Management at the African Development Bank Group. He is also Senior Director of the Bank’s African Development Institute. Kevin Urama is an elected member of the African Academy of Sciences (AAS), a distinguished professor at the University of Nigeria, a visiting professor at the School of Public Leadership at Stellenbosch University in South Africa, an associate professor of public policy and international affairs at the Sir Walter Murdoch School, in Western Australia, and a member of the United Nations Global Council on the Sustainable Development Goals for the period 2021–2023. Before joining the African Development Bank, Kevin Urama was the first Managing Director of the Quantum Global Research Lab in Switzerland, Executive Director of the African Technology Policy Studies Network (ATPS) and Senior Research Fellow at the Macaulay Land Use Research Institute in Scotland. Kevin holds an MPhil and a PhD in land economics from the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom. More information : https://vcda.afdb.org/en/content/professor-urama-kevin-chika

Ismaël MOURIFIE is currently a professor of economics at Washington University in St Louis. He is a...

Ismaël MOURIFIE is currently a professor of economics at Washington University in St Louis. He is a member of the Econometric Society, a research associate in labour studies at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) and a member of the University of Chicago’s Early Intervention Network for Young Children. His research focuses on microeconometrics, and more specifically on identification problems in incomplete models, causal inference, public policy evaluation and empirical matching models. His work has been published in leading economic and statistical journals, such as the *Journal of Political Economy*, the *Journal of Labour Economics*, the *Review of Economics and Statistics*, the *Journal of Econometrics* and *Biometrika*. He is currently co-editor of the *Journal of Applied Econometrics* and the *Annals of Economics and Statistics*, and associate editor of the *Journal of Econometrics*, the *Journal of Business, Economics & Statistics* and the *Annals of Economics and Statistics*. He received the John C. Polanyi Prize in Economics in 2017. Since 2022, Ismaël Mourifié has co-chaired the Canadian Committee on Diversity in Economics initiative. Before joining Washington University in St Louis, Ismaël Mourifié was a professor of economics at the University of Toronto and was a visiting professor at the universities of Berkeley and Chicago. Professor Mourifié is originally from Côte d’Ivoire. He obtained a bachelor’s degree in mathematics from Sidi-Ben Abdallah University (Morocco) in 2005, a master’s degree in statistics from INSEA (Morocco) in 2008, and a PhD in economics from the University of Montreal in 2014. More information : https://economics.washu.edu/people/ismael-mourifie

Marlène KOFFI is an Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Toronto and a Faculty Rese...

Marlène KOFFI is an Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Toronto and a Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER). She is also affiliated with the Schwartz Reisman Institute for Technology and Society. Her research lies at the intersection of the economics of innovation, science, inequality, and applied machine learning. She studies gender and racial disparities in scientific production, recognition, citation practices, and the commercialization of innovation. Her work has been published in leading journals, including the American Economic Review, the American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, and the AEA Papers and Proceedings. Her broader research interests include artificial intelligence, macro-finance, international financial integration, and sovereign debt sustainability". More information : https://www.economics.utoronto.ca/index.php/index/person/person/faculty/1935

Erik STAM is a full professor of strategy, organisation and entrepreneurship at the Faculty of Econo...

Erik STAM is a full professor of strategy, organisation and entrepreneurship at the Faculty of Economics at Utrecht University (Netherlands), and leads the flagship initiative of the Utrecht University Centre for Global Challenges (UGlobe), entitled ‘Entrepreneurship-led Sustainable Development in Africa’. He is also an extraordinary professor of economics at the University of Stellenbosch (South Africa). A recognised specialist in entrepreneurial ecosystems, his research focuses on the science and practice of development through entrepreneurship, at both local and global levels. He has (co-)authored over a hundred books, book chapters and articles on this subject and related topics. In addition to his academic work, he is frequently consulted by governments at local, regional, national and international levels (the European Commission, the OECD, the G20, the World Bank), as well as by start-ups, investors and businesses on issues relating to innovation and entrepreneurship. More information : https://www.uu.nl/staff/FCStam