Selected work

Research designed to inform decisions and strengthen institutions

These cases span the evidence cycle: framing questions, designing instruments, managing field systems, analysing complex data, translating findings, and strengthening implementation.

World Bank · The Gambia · 2021–2022 / 2025–2026 · Completed reports

Human capital, gender, jobs, and economic opportunity

Research Consultant

Microeconometrics · Survey-weighted analysis · Data harmonisation

Contribution

Cleaned, harmonised, and analysed Demographic and Health Survey, Integrated Household Survey, Labour Force Survey, population census, and administrative data.
Applied survey-weighted descriptive and microeconometric methods, including earnings models, selection correction, decomposition, and matching-based approaches.
Produced reproducible tables, figures, and analytical inputs connecting microdata evidence to policy recommendations.

Results and significance

The analysis informed the 2026 Economic Update’s account of the barriers connecting education, gender, employment, and economic opportunity.

Read The Gambia Economic Update

World Bank · ACET · Government of The Gambia · 2023–2025 · Completed reform outputs

Reforming the national public-policy system

Project lead

Institutional diagnostics · Stakeholder consultation · Policy design

Contribution

Reviewed 44 national policies across 16 ministries, departments, and agencies, supported by institutional analysis, consultation, and international benchmarking.
Served as lead author of the Policy Framework Diagnostic Report and National Policy Development Handbook, including tools for appraisal, engagement, evidence use, implementation, monitoring, and evaluation.
Developed the Integrated Development Framework, linking the long-term National Vision to development plans, sector policies, institutional strategic plans, and annual work plans, with ownership and review mechanisms at each level.
Provided technical assistance to public institutions and delivered training in evidence-informed and results-based policymaking to more than 100 officials.
Supported validation, institutional adoption, and Cabinet approval of the handbook as the national guide for policy development.

Results and significance

The reform produced a diagnostic covering 44 policies across 16 institutions, a government-wide planning architecture, and a handbook that Cabinet approved as the national guide for policy development.

Read the National Policy Development Handbook Read the diagnostic report

World Bank · ACET · Government of The Gambia · 2024–2025 · Completed analytical support

Public-sector compensation and payroll analysis

Lead technical analyst

Payroll analysis · Fiscal scenario modelling · Automated quality assurance

Contribution

Reviewed two years of monthly payroll and wage-bill data to identify expenditure patterns, anomalies, and weaknesses in payroll controls.
Developed an automated script for recurring payroll checks and identified a fragmented allowance structure that complicated oversight.
Modelled alternative salary adjustments, including wage-bill costs, personal income-tax effects, and the organisational costs of continued real-wage erosion.
Prepared analytical inputs for government discussions with the International Monetary Fund.

Results and significance

The analysis informed government negotiations with the IMF. Those negotiations subsequently resulted in salary increases of approximately 60–100% for lower-paid civil servants; the analysis was one input to that outcome.

World Bank · ACET · Government of The Gambia · 2024–2025 · Deployed internal tools

Digital decision tools for the Presidency

Project lead

Digital strategy · Dashboard design · Administrative-data integration

Contribution

Developed a concept and implementation approach for digitalising priority Cabinet and Office of the President processes.
Designed and deployed an Executive Council Dashboard combining ministry submissions on inflation, food stocks, government revenue, expenditure, and related indicators.
Designed and deployed a Project Tracker dashboard for monitoring and scoring implementation progress across priority national projects.

Results and significance

Both dashboards were deployed for internal government use: one supported monthly Economic Council discussions, while the other supported monitoring of priority projects for the Delivery Forum.

Green Climate Fund · Independent Evaluation Unit · 2022–2023 · Completed evaluations

Climate resilience and adaptation evaluations

Evaluation Assistant

Quasi-experimental evaluation · Survey instruments · Evidence synthesis

Contribution

Contributed to a phased-rollout evaluation of clean-cooking solutions in Nepal and survey instruments covering household welfare and gender.
Managed and analysed project and survey data for a sustainable-landscapes evaluation in Madagascar.
Developed a quasi-experimental evaluation approach for a climate-information programme in Vanuatu and contributed to the GCF’s Second Performance Review.

Results and significance

The evaluation work supported learning across three climate-resilience programmes and contributed to the fund’s second performance review.

Read the Second Performance Review

Green Climate Fund · Independent Evaluation Unit · 2022–2023 · Completed contributions

Evidence reviews on women’s empowerment and water systems

Evaluation Assistant

Evidence synthesis · Technical quality assurance · Knowledge translation

Contribution

Supported technical review and quality assurance for the evidence review on women’s empowerment, including consistency checks and synthesis of findings.
Developed presentation and visual materials that translated the review’s findings for dissemination and learning.
Helped define the analytical scope of the water-systems evidence review and drafted its terms of reference, including technical requirements, deliverables, and evaluation criteria.

Results and significance

The work produced reviewed analytical outputs and dissemination materials for the women’s-empowerment review, together with a defined scope and terms of reference for the water-systems review.

ISSER · Northwestern University · Yale University · 2018–2020 · Completed

Ghana Socioeconomic Panel Survey

Principal Research Assistant

Survey systems · CAPI · Data quality

Contribution

Supported survey design, field planning, questionnaire programming, and implementation protocols.
Recruited, trained, and supervised more than 200 field enumerators and supervisors in CAPI-based data collection and research ethics.
Led high-frequency quality assurance, field coordination, data preparation, and reporting support.

Results and significance

The field and quality-assurance systems supported a nationally representative longitudinal survey and the effective supervision of more than 200 field staff.

ISSER · IPA · Northwestern University · New York University · UNICEF · Ghana · 2019 · Completed fieldwork

Experimental research and field operations

Fieldwork manager and field coordinator

Randomised evaluation · CAPI systems · Real-time data quality

Contribution

Managed field implementation for the Graduating the Ultra Poor randomised evaluation, including team recruitment and training, CAPI programming, intervention delivery, and real-time quality assurance.
Coordinated fieldwork and incoming-data checks for research on participation in the Ghana Commodity Exchange.
Supported instrument adaptation, survey design, sampling, field planning, staff training, and protocol monitoring for UNICEF’s Time to Teach study.

Results and significance

Across the three studies, the work established practical field systems for staff supervision, protocol compliance, CAPI-based collection, and continuous review of incoming data.

Woosong University · South Korea · 2023–2024 · Completed

Teaching, mentoring, and research supervision

Assistant Professor

Teaching · Academic mentoring · Research supervision

Contribution

Taught Global Economic Systems, Managerial Accounting, Financial Accounting, Business Management, and Financial Management.
Mentored students on academic performance, research design, and career development.
Served on four doctoral dissertation committees and supervised student research.

Results and significance

The role combined undergraduate and graduate teaching with academic mentoring, student research supervision, and service on four doctoral dissertation committees.