Introduction
I am an Economist (Young Professional) in the Social Inclusion and Sustainability Global Practice of the World Bank Group (SSI)
Expert
Soazic Elise WANG SONNE, a native from Cameroon joined the Bank in September 2019 as a Young Professional (YP) in the Social Inclusion and Sustainability Global Practice as an economist/statistician, supporting data analysis and data collection under the Development Response to Displacement (DRDIP) impact evaluations and strengthening M&E systems of Community Driven Development (CDD) projects in Ethiopia, Kenya, Burundi and CAR. In 2018, she was a UK-DFID young research scholar/ World Bank Africa Fellow with the Fragility, Conflict and Violence Group (FCV) where she examined the long-term consequences of population shocks (refugees and IDPs inflows) on children’s health and learning outcomes in host communities of Tanzania and Burundi using quantitative data. Prior to joining the Bank, Elise was a PhD research fellow in applied economics at the United Nations University (UNU-MERIT) in Maastricht, The Netherlands. She also holds a double engineering degree in statistics and applied economics ("Ingenieur Statisticien Economiste") under ENSAE-Paris/CAPESA and a Msc in applied economics-project evaluation from the University of Rennes I (France) funded by the Cameroon UK Chevening Scholarship. She was a visiting research scholar at New York University (NYU)-Global TIES for children in conflict-affected settings, the University of California at Berkeley (CEGA-BITSS), the Refugees Study Center of the University of Oxford (Trinity-Term), the Social Development Policy and African Center for Statistics at the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) and a German DAAD research scholar at the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR) in Rostock, Germany. Soazic is a strong advocate of research transparency and reproducibility in Social Sciences and her work as a data catalyst in Sub-Saharan Africa has been rewarded by the 2017 UC Berkeley Leamer-Rosenthal Prize in the category of Emerging Researcher. She is also an Open Data ambassador at the Center for Open Science and has been very active in spearheading the Open Data science movement. Soazic is a member of the Black in Artificial Intelligence Network and is having a keen interest in understanding how non-traditional sources of data from social media could help us solve pressing development issues. Soazic has also been served as an analyst for Freedom House for the past three years. She is the recipient of the Imperial College Women Scholarship awards.
Fields of expertise: Economic policy / inclusive economic development, Inclusive social development / inclusive societies / social inclusion