Scientists

Dr Mahamadou Tankari is a Senior Scientist at AKADEMIY2063. Previously, Mahamadou worked at the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) in Senegal where he carried out policy-oriented research.

His research interests cover agricultural economics, health economics, food security and poverty issues. He has authored and co-authored many published articles in peer-reviewed journals including Food security, Journal of Development Studies, Economic Modelling, Agricultural Economics and Journal of African Economies.

Mahamadou received his PhD in Economics from the University of Pau, France. He holds a Master’s degree in Statistics and Economics from ENSAE Senegal and a Masters in Mathematics from the University 08 Mai 1945, Algeria.

Anatole Goundan is a Senior Associate Scientist at AKADEMIYA2063. Over the last eight years (2013-2020), he worked for the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) as Research Analyst.

His research examines agriculture and poverty reduction, agricultural trade, economic modeling, and agricultural productivity.

Anatole holds a PhD in Agricultural Economics from the University of Kiel (Germany) and Master’s degree in Statistics & Applied Economics from the National School of Statistics and Economic Analysis.

Wondwosen Tefera holds BA degree in Economics and MSc in economic policy analysis from the Addis Ababa University. For the last eight and a half years, he has been working as a research officer at the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), Africa Division based in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

He has concrete experience in various research works and program M&E. He is engaged in collecting, verifying, tracking and reporting 30+ CAADP indicators based on the CAADP result framework and annually publish on the Annual Trend and Outlook Report (ATOR).

Prior to joining IFPRI, he took part on several consultancy jobs for various domestic and international organizations. Furthermore, he has worked on several surveys, as well as project and program evaluations in different capacities. He has strong skill and practical application experience on data analysis using Stata, SPSS, excel, ArcMap and also on survey data management using CSPro.

Lea Vicky MAGNE DOMGHO is a Senior Associate Scientist with AKADEMIYA2063’s Knowledge System Department (NSD), based in Dakar Senegal.

Prior to joining Akademiya2063, she worked at the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) for eight years as Research Analyst. Her research examines agriculture productivity, agriculture and food security and nutrition linkages, and institutional issues related to agricultural development.

Lea received a Master’s degree in Statistics & Applied Economics from the National School of Statistics and Economic Analysis of Dakar in 2012 and a Bachelor's degree in Mathematics from the University of Yaounde 1 in 2009.

Khadim Dia is an Associate Data Scientist at AKADEMYA2063. He is an economic statistician engineer whose work entails collecting qualitative and quantitative data relevant and consistent with rigorous methods to guarantee quality of the results.

Prior to AKADEMIYA2063 Khadim worked at IFPRI - as Chief Statistician -where he mainly supported agricultural policies in Senegal within the PAPA project. The project included more than 20 surveys on different agricultural value chains and his responsibility ranged from the design of surveys to the production of statistics and the development of econometric models.

Khadim graduated as an engineer from the National School of Statistics and Economic Analysis in Senegal (ENSAE) in 2015. He also is recipient of a certification in Machine Learning from Stanford University. Prior to join IFPRI, he worked at the National Agency for Statistics and Demography of Senegal (ANSD).

Mariam A. Diallo joined AKADEMIYA2063 as an Associate scientist in the department of Capacity and deployment in July 2020. She has a background in Statistics and Economics.

Prior to joining AKADEMIA2063, Mariam worked at IFPRI as Research Analyst where she supported preparation of project deliverables, briefs and papers. Her research emphasis at IFPRI was on economy-wide modeling, econometric models, data management.

She holds a statistician and economist engineer degree from the National School of Economics and Statistics in Senegal (ENSAE-Senegal) and a Bachelor in Mathematics from Gaston Berger University (UGB) of Saint-Louis, Senegal.

Leysa is a Statistician and Economist Engineer graduated in 2017 from the National School of Statistics and Economic Analysis (ENSAE) in Dakar. Prior to that, she holds a Bachelor in Math’s- Physics and Computer science and a M.Sc. in Probability and statistics from Cheikh Anta Diop University.

Her previous work experience includes research on agricultural and food security policies with a focus on asymmetries in Senegalese rice market during her Internship at Initiative Prospective Agricole et Rural (IPAR) in collaboration with IFPRI. Leysa has also served as a Lecturer in Econometrics especially in panel data analysis at ENSAE school, Dakar Senegal.

After her graduation, she worked at IFPRI as a research analyst for almost 3 years. She was involved in different projects including the National Agricultural Investment Plan (NAIP) Analytical Support for ECOWAS and Southern African countries, the Voice for Change Partnership (V4CP) led by The Netherlands Development Organization (SNV) and the PAPA Project (Senegal Agricultural Program Support). Her main tasks were to assist in data processing, economic analysis, literature review and draft reports. Her research interest includes mainly Inclusive growth and value chain development, structural transformation, food, and nutrition security and other topics related to agricultural productivity.