Sansan Vincent de Paul Kambou

Sansan Vincent de Paul Kambou is a Pre-doctoral Fellow with the Global Economic Governance Initiative at the Boston University Global Development Policy Center, focusing on the Financial Stability workstream. A Ph.D. candidate in Economics at the Center for Studies and Research on International Development (CERDI) at Université Clermont Auvergne (UCA), he works on sovereign debt sustainability, sovereign debt restructuring mechanisms and the macroeconomic effects of exogenous shocks—particularly climate-related shocks and natural disasters—on debt sustainability. In line with the Financial Stability workstream, his research examines the adequacy of the Global Financial Safety Net (GFSN), the role of formal and informal institutions in sovereign debt restructurings to ensure orderly and equitable resolutions and the contribution of macroprudential policies and regional cooperation to financial risk management.

He has worked as a sovereign debt advisor under the G20 Debt Service Suspension Initiative (DSSI), as a Junior Debt Expert for the EU and as a consultant/research assistant with the IMF, Banque de France and FERDI. He has taught macroeconomics, microeconomics, statistics and econometrics at UCA’s School of Economics and ESC Clermont Business School. He holds two Master’s degrees: Development Economics (University Institute of Abidjan) and Public Finance (UCA – School of Economics/CERDI).