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Meet our Team

Loubna Bourkane Chief Youth Employment Expert for North Africa at the African Development Bank

Loubna Bourkane is the Chief Youth Employment Expert at the African Development Bank. She has also managed projects in the field of employment and training in West Africa (Côte d'Ivoire, Cape Verde, Togo, Senegal, and Guinea-Bissau). She has contributed to draft the youth employment strategy in Africa and launched the EInA platform in North Africa.

Before joining the AfDB in 2010, Loubna was in charge of education, training and local development projects for the French Development Agency (AFD) in Mauritania (2008-2010). Loubna holds a master's degree in development economics from CERDI (University of Auvergne – France).

David Robalino Economist, Strategic Advisor for the EInA Platform

David Robalino is an economist from Ecuador specializing in issues related to jobs, entrepreneurship, and public finance. He has worked on these topics in over 60 countries worldwide within international organizations such as the IMF, ILO, several regional banks and the World Bank, where he served as a lead economist and manager of Global Practice on Jobs.

David is also a Senior Advisor for McKinsey’s Development Economics Practice. Currently, he serves as an advisor to the EInA platform at the African Development Bank and he is a Professor of Public Finance and Economic Development at the American University of Beirut. David is also a fellow at IZA, Germany’s leading labor economics think tank and a member of the economic council of the Millennium Corporate Challenge.

Sofia Azaiez Coordinator of EInA the EInA Platform

Sofia Azaiez has been the coordinator of EInA since February 2025. With a master’s degree in international law and development finance, in which she graduated top of her class in 2011, she has spent the past 12 years working mainly in North Africa. She has led projects focused on employment and entrepreneurship in collaboration with international organizations such as Monaco Cooperation, the UN Development Programme, and the French Development Agency. Over the last four years, she has also conducted research on radicalization prevention, environmental justice, and gender issues with the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and Expertise France.

Adil Khalis focal point for Morocco in the EInA platform

Adil Khalis is a Moroccan economist and specialist in entrepreneurship and employment issues. For the past 15 years, he has carried out strategic advisory missions on development issues for government departments and international donors. Before joining the EInA team, he was in charge of the employment/entrepreneurship files as Advisor to the Head of the Government of Morocco (2020-21).

Mahamat Moussa Koumo junior economist

Mahamat Moussa Koumo is a junior economist at the platform. Before joining EInA, where he had previously completed a six-month internship, he also worked as a consultant at the Bank of Central African States. This experience has provided him with a strong background in economic analysis and development projects management.

Mahamat is originally from Chad and holds a master’s in development economics from CERDI (Université Clermont Auvergne) as well as an Engineer’s degree in Statistics from the Sub regional Institute of Statistics and Applied Economics of Yaoundé.