Prénom de l'expert
Sina
Nom de l'expert
SCHLIMMER
Research Fellow at Ifri's Sub-Saharan Africa Center, Head of the Governing the Urban Transition in Africa research program
Research Areas:
- Urban governance
- Land policies
- Kenya, Tanzania, East Africa
- State formation
- Policy analysis
Sina Schlimmer is a Research Fellow at the French institute of international relations - Ifri's Sub-Saharan Africa Center, and head of the Governing the Urban Transition research program. She has a genuine interest in the challenges of governing cities and in land issues in East Africa.
After completing her PhD thesis in political science, which focused on large-scale land acquisitions in Tanzania she specialized on urban land markets during a post-doc at Sciences Po Bordeaux. As a consultant at UN-Habitat in Nairobi in Kenya, she developed an expertise in the socio-economic dynamics of rapidly growing cities in Africa. Sina has undertaken several field studies in Benin, Kenya, and Tanzania.
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