Featured Economists

Featured economist, July 2026

Pouirkèta Rita Nikiema

Dr. Pouirkèta Rita Nikiema is a development economist and Lecturer-Researcher at Université Norbert Zongo, Burkina Faso. She holds a Ph.D. in Applied Economics from the Inter-University Graduate Program (PTCI) at Université Cheikh Anta Diop in Dakar, Senegal, a Master’s degree in Human Resources Economics from Université Thomas Sankara, Burkina Faso.
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Past featured economists
Leila Baghdadi

Leila Baghdadi

Leila Baghdadi is Professor of Economics at ESSECT, University of Tunis, where she holds the World Trade Organization Chair. She is an executive board member of the Central Bank of Tunisia since August 2019. She was appointed as a member of the Tunisian Council of...

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