I teach and deliver training in economics, impact evaluation, environmental policy, natural resource economics, and applied quantitative methods. My teaching links economic theory to practical policy questions, with a focus on development, agriculture, environmental governance, and evidence-based decision-making.
Areas I teach and train in
Impact evaluation and causal inference: Training on randomized evaluations, quasi-experimental methods, survey design, sampling, and the interpretation of evaluation results.
Applied econometrics and quantitative methods: Courses and training on regression analysis, causal inference, field data, and empirical work using applied examples.
Development economics: Teaching on poverty, agriculture, labor, markets, microfinance, gender, institutions, and program evaluation in low- and middle-income countries.
Environmental and natural resource economics: Courses on renewable and non-renewable resources, land use, forests, biodiversity, climate policy, and environmental regulation.
Sustainable development: Courses on the economic, social, and environmental dimensions of sustainability, with attention to policy trade-offs.
Courses and Training
Impact Evaluation and Applied Econometrics, Development Bank of Rwanda (2026): Professional training on Regression Discontinuity Design.
PhD Seminar on Development Economics, University of Rwanda (2026).
Environnement et Commerce International, University of Burundi (2025, in French): Master’s level course on the relationship between international trade and the environment.
Management of Biological Resources, SLU (2024-2026): Master’s level course in which students learn optimal control methods to study the economics of renewable and non-renewable resources.
CEMUS — Green Growth (2024, 2025, 2026): Introduction to the macroeconomics of natural resources.
Economics of Sustainable Development, SLU (2023-2025): Undegrad course centered on the application of economic analysis to sustainable development, encompassing its ecological, social, and economic dimensions.
Introduction to Microeconomics, Christian University of Bujumbura (2023, in French)
Economic Growth and Sustainable Development, SLU (2022-2025): This is a graduate level course, which links economic growth to environmental quality and resource use.
Introduction to Statistics for Social Sciences, Christian University of Bujumbura (2022, in French)
International Trade, Henan University (2022): This is a graduate level course, aimed at Master’s and PhD students, where I cover the main models of trade.
Natural Resources and Sustainable Development, IHEID (2015-2022): This course is a graduate introduction to Natural Resources Economics.
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“Every man’s performances, to be rightly estimated, must be compared with the state of the age in which he lived, and with his own particular opportunities […] [T]here is always a silent reference of human works to human abilities, and as the enquiry, how far man may extend his designs, or how high he may rate his native force, is of far greater dignity than in what rank we shall place any particular performance […].” Samuel Johnson, Preface to Shakespeare (1765)
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