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He is currently working for "The Investment and Growth" programme at the ODI in London, which seeks to understand what drives growth and investment.
He has e.g. studied: Economic Growth under Antonio Ciccone and Xavier Sala-i-Martin at CREI, Pompeu Fabra; Transport Investment Appraisal under e.g. Nigel Smith; Chris Nash and Peter Mackie at the Institute for Transport Studies, University of Leeds; Finance and Investment under Kenton Zumwalt & Robert A. Strong at Harvard University; and Trade under Philip C. Abbott; Tom Hertel and Alan Winters.
He earned his B.Sc.(1997) & M.Sc.(2002) from the Department of Economics, University of Copenhagen, Denmark, and is in the process of earning a Ph.D. from the Centre for Environmental Policy, Imperial College London & University of London (2010) under Colin Thirtle; Salvatore di Falco & Jonathan Kydd.
In the past, Christian Kingombe has worked as a consultant for numerous international organisations, including various UN agencies (UNCTAD, UNECE, and ILO), the OECD, the World Bank, and the European Commission. He has also assisted the government of Denmark’s Africa Commission on Effective Development Cooperation with Africa within framework of Youth & Employment.
Christian Kingombe has contributed to a number of flagship reports, including UNCTAD’s Economic Development in Africa 2009: Strengthening Regional Economic Integration for Africa’s Development; OECD-AfDB-UNECA’s African Economic Outlook 2008/2009: Information and Communications Technologies and Innovation in Africa; OECD-AfDB’s African Economic Outlook 2007/2008: Technical and Vocational Skills Development in Africa; UNECE-FAO-EUROSTAT-OECD’s 2005 Handbook on Rural Household, Livelihood and Wellbeing: Statistics on Rural Development and Agricultural Household Income; ILO’s World Employment Report, 2004: Employment, Productivity and Poverty Reduction; and UNCTAD’s the Trade and Development Report, 2001: Global Trends and Prospects – Financial Architecture.
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