Hélène Djoufelkit

Helene Djoufelkit holds a Ph.D in development economics. She has begun her AFD career in 2004 at the research department working mainly on innovative development financing instruments, and on the link between economic rents and growth in Egypt, Algeria and Sub-Saharan Africa. In 2008 she was appointed as Senior Advisor to the Executive Director for France at the IMF and the World Bank, in charge of African issues. From 2012, she spent four years as Deputy Country Director of AFD Office in Egypt. She went back in Paris in 2016 as head of the Corporate Strategy and Accountability Unit before moving to the Economic Assessment and Public Policy Department in 2017.