Vincent Kambou is on a research stay at the Boston University

Sansan Vincent de Paul Kambou is on a research stay at the Global Development Policy Center, a department of Boston University. This prolonged stay is a fantastic and rare opportunity for him to work at the Global Economic Governance Initiativewith a team of researchers who have a unique expertise on international financial policies.     

Vincent Kambou is a PhD candidate in Economics at the Université Clermont Auvergne (UCA) and the CERDI with a strong competence in fiscal and public debt analysis. He studies the macroeconomic implications of climate change-related events and natural disasters under the supervision of Samuel Guérineau (UCA, CERDI) and Marin Ferry (Université Gustave Eiffel). He particularly analyses the effects on the sovereign debt of those countries that public and private lenders hold. Moreover, he is a junior researcher who has already worked as a consultant for several major institutions in the field, including the EU, the IMF, Banque de France, and FERDI. He has also been a lecturer in his areas of expertise (macroeconomics, statistics, and econometrics) at the Ecole d'Economie, UCA. He holds two Master's Degrees: a Master's in Development Economics from the University Institute of Abidjan and a Master's in Public Finance at the Ecole d'Economie.  

Good news for him! His paper on the financial management of natural disasters in developing countries will be published in the December 2025 issue of International Economics. Using a sample of 74 countries, he explores the long-term repercussions of high-intensity destabilizing events on their debt and financial policies. He shows that increasing development aid flows is not the best solution to reduce the debt burden and that countries need to restructure their private and public debt. Countries should adopt measures to strengthen resilience to climate change, preserve fiscal room, and also manage their access to financial markets. [Read the article]   

The Label I-Site, a research program of the Université Clermont Auvergne, supports his stay at the Global Development Policy Center. His research is in line with the studies conducted at the International Research Centre of Disaster Science and Sustainable Development (UCA).