Mafini Dosso, PhD, is Economist of Innovation & certified project manager professional (PMP). She has 17 years of experience, including nine years as an economist and project leader at the European Commission JRC in Spain. She has co-founded OIITID, a research non-profit organisation in Côte d’Ivoire to support local knowledge development on topics such as innovation, industrial change, technology diffusion in Africa (www.oiitid.org). Mafini is also the secretary general of Immoci Research, a group of professionals having the objective to improve research and sound data on territorial and real estate development in West Africa (https://immociresearch.webflow.io). Mafini speaks French, English, Spanish and holds a Doctorate from Paris I Sorbonne, France.