Ahmadou Mbaye is a nonresident senior fellow at the Brokings Institution. He is also vice-chancellor of University Cheikh Anta DIOP in Dakar, Senegal and a senior research associate at the Centre for Development Research (ZEF, University of Bonn, Germany). Additionally, he is director of the Laboratoire d’Analyse des Politiques de Developpement. He is also the director of the regional graduate program in climate change economics (including 10 countries). Mbaye holds a master's in economics from UCAD and a Ph.D. in economics from CERDI, University of Auvergne.