Author: Henri Kouam
I currently work as an Economic Research Fellow at an African-based think tank. Prior to this, I worked as a Nordic and European economist covering central banking and employing machine learning in econometric analysis. I forecast and write thematic research on fiscal policy, the economic and climate transition as well as monetary economics. I contribute to a number of global newspapers, risk consultancies and economic journals.
I also have over 5 years’ experience in both up and downstream oil markets, writing thematic pieces and forecasting medium-term oil outlook for oil majors. I build algorithms in other to forecast global commodity prices in real time, and currently constructing an index designed to quantify the price effects of geopolitical outcomes.
Furthermore, I also worked closely with West African finance ministers, demographers and policymakers on the Demographic Dividend - a project designed to help French-speaking African countries leverage their demographic transitions.
The Huawei Fuss and Implications For Africa’s Cyber Security
The last decade has seen unprecedented advances in technology, from machine learning used to forecast patient health outcomes to renewable energy and biofuels adopted across a range of advanced, emerging, and developing market economies. While there is much bluster about machine learning, robotics, and data science, 5G ...
The Economic Implications of COVID-19 in Cameroon and Key Lessons for Policymakers
COVID-19 has infected more than 100,000 people in at least 77 countries, disrupting global manufacturing supply chains and causing a slowdown in key service sectors such as tourism, transport, and recreation. While the virus will cause exports from Cameroon to China and Italy to fall, policymakers must ...