Eustace Uzor is an Evaluation Officer at the African Development Bank Group (AfDB) in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire. He has 8 years of professional experience in development evaluation and economics research and currently evaluates the Bank’s Infrastructure and Private Sector Operations.
He recently played a leading role in evaluating the Bank’s Middle-Income Country Technical Assistance Fund comprising 185 operations in 30 Regional Middle-Income Countries (MICs) worth $146.4 million. In his previous role as an Evaluation Consultant, he contributed to the Evaluation Synthesis of the Bank’s Financial and Non-Financial partnerships, and the Mid-Term Evaluation (MTE, 2015-2017) of the Country Strategy and Program (CSP, 2015-2019) in Guinea-Bissau. Until 2017, he Co-Directed the Research Conference of the Africa Summit at the London School of Economics (LSE) and was a Senior Research Fellow (Economist) at the Centre for the Study of the Economies of Africa (CSEA), an Economic Research Think Tank in Nigeria.
Mr Uzor holds MSc Degrees in Development Studies (2017) and Financial Economics (2012) from the London School of Economics and University of Essex, respectively. He has a BSc degree in Economics from Nigeria and an Executive Education Certificate in Rethinking Financial Inclusion from John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. Mr Uzor has also attended several professional trainings, including at Brown University (Climate Change), Oxford University (Multidimensional Poverty Analysis), University of East Anglia (Impact Evaluation). Presently, he is a recipient of the 2018/19 Hewlett Foundation Scholarship for a MicroMasters in Data, Economics, and Development Policy (DEDP) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). His research interest spans from Human Development to Infrastructure Financing.