Education
2020 - 2025 PhD in Development Economics University of Florence, Italy
2003 - 2004 Master of Science in International and Development Economics Catholic University of Louvain and University of Namur, Belgium
1998 - 2002 Degree in Economics Catholic University of Milan, Italy
Languages
English, French, and Spanish: fluent | Italian: mother tongue
Work Experience
2026 - present Village Input Fairs Fund – USA - Director of Social Enterprises
2024 - present Northwestern University – USA -Visiting Researcher at GPRL
2023 - 2024 Bocconi University - Italy - Researcher
2018 - 2023 University of Zurich - Switzerland - Research Director
2012 - 2018 Innovations for Poverty Action - Burkina Faso & Mali - Country Director
2009 - 2012 Frères des Hommes - France - Manager
2008 - 2009 European Network on Debt and Development - Belgium - Manager
2007 - 2008 United Nations Development Program UNDP - Burkina Faso - Evaluation officer
Country Experience
Burkina Faso, Ghana, Haiti, India, Ivory Coast, Malawi, Mali, Niger, Senegal, RDC, Rwanda, Uganda, and Viet Nam
Additional Information
Founder & Board Member of the 501(c)3 Village Input Fairs Fund, USA.
Founder & President of the Social Enterprise Sene Sugu Folo Sas, Mali.
Founder of the Social Enterprise Miledù, Italy.
Good Knowledge of Statistical Software STATA and Econometric Modelling.
Grants & Prizes
2025 - $500,000 | Livelihood Impact Fund for the Start-up of Village Input Fairs Fund & Sene Sugu Folo
2024 - €1,267,192 | Development Innovations Fund (FID) for the Project “Scaling Agricultural Input Market Innovations: Village Input Fairs in Ghana”
2023 - $5,000 | IFAD grant for the working paper “Making Markets” presented at the conference “Jobs, Innovation and Value Chains in the age of Climate Change.”
2023 - $249,487 | JPAL, ATAI Initiative for the Project “Scaling a Bundled Market-Creating Innovation in Burkina Faso and Mali”
2022 - $840,030 | USAID, DIV Stage 2 for the Project “Scaling Agricultural Input Markets in Mali”
2020 - $194,691 | USAID, DIV Stage 1 for the Project “Innovative finance and commitment mechanisms in agricultural input decisions”
2018 - $359,078 | JPAL, ATAI Initiative for the Project “Rural Finance and Commitment Mechanisms in Agricultural Input Decisions”