I am a Senior Urban Economist in the Urban, Disaster Risk Management, Resilence and Land Global Practice of the World Bank, based in Washington, DC. My work cuts across issues related to the economics of urbanization, regional development, conflict/fragility and disasters. I obtained my PhD in Economics from the European Center for Advanced Research in Economics and Statistics (ECARES) at the Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management, Université libre de Bruxelles. In 2014-2015, I was a Fulbright visiting student researcher at the University of California, Berkeley. I hold Master degrees in economics and in demography from Université catholique de Louvain (2008 and 2012). During my PhD, I studied post-war economics, drawing from micro-level evidence from the African great lakes region.
My CV is here.
You can contact me at odaoust@worldbank.org