Economist · Montréal
Behavioural science, experiments and data systems for public policy.
I am an economist with eight years in the Canadian federal public service, working on results-based management, econometric analysis, performance frameworks and monitoring systems. Since May 2026 I have worked full time as an independent consultant, in English, French and Arabic.
Capabilities
Data, experiments and evidence
We strengthen how institutions collect, analyse and apply data, so that policies and services are designed on evidence that is useful, timely and decision-ready: A/B tests, field trials, discrete choice experiments and behavioural diagnostics.
Results-based management and workflow optimisation
Logic models, indicator frameworks, performance dashboards and process redesign that connect what an institution does to the results it is accountable for.
Systems and automated decisions
Operational platforms for field reporting, approvals and consolidation, and governed AI-assisted decision tools, built with confirmation, audit trails and human accountability designed in.
Economic and financial analysis
Cost-benefit analysis, financial models and investment scenarios for public-sector and donor investments.
Work
Agricultural market intelligence for an irrigated valley: weekly price monitoring, storage and forecasts
A worked weekly market-intelligence system for paddy rice and onion in a Sahelian irrigated valley: seasonal norms and alert bands, valley-to-capital price transmission, marketing margins, a storage break-even calculator, and backtested forecast bands, accompanied by the bulletin template and data-collection design required for operational deployment.
A four-arm randomised trial of savings reminders
A pre-analysis-plan-grade protocol evaluating whether SMS or voice reminders—plain, goal-framed, or loss-framed—increase the regularity of mobile-wallet savings, accompanied by a reproducible and verifiable power calculation.
A behavioural diagnostic, from holding a mobile wallet to saving in it every month
A worked diagnostic for one precisely defined behaviour: a monthly deposit into a mobile wallet's savings feature. The behaviour is selected against alternatives and mapped using the COM-B model onto an end-to-end user journey with a synthetic funnel. Its 14 candidate barriers are scored and ranked via an explicit decision rule, and each priority barrier is systematically linked to a behavioural mechanism, an intervention, a theory of change, and an evaluation protocol.
Cost-benefit analysis of routine maintenance for an unpaved rural road network
A worked economic appraisal of moving 400 km of gravel roads from deferred maintenance to routine and periodic maintenance, with switching values, a tornado chart, Monte Carlo simulation, and a fiscal note. Parameters are cited from published sources or labelled as illustrative.
Evidence next to every claim
This site is a body of work rather than a list of services: case studies, prototypes, experimental designs, models, notebooks and courses, each labelled with what it is.
Insights
A feasibility test is not a small experiment
A cohort of twelve to twenty people can determine whether an intervention can be delivered, understood, and reliably measured. It cannot establish whether the intervention works. Conflating the two is precisely how public programmes end up scaling on statistical noise.
What a cost-benefit analysis can tell a funder, and what it cannot
Economic cost-benefit analysis, financial analysis, and cost-effectiveness analysis answer fundamentally different questions. Switching values provide far better decision support than a single point-estimate NPV, and three common methodological pitfalls explain why appraisals so often mislead.