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

Sub-Saharan Africa Center

KAMPALA, UGANDA - SEPTEMBER 28, 2012. A look at life on the side streets of Kampala, Uganda

Governing the Urban Transition in Africa

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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