Nara Monkam

Previously, she held the role of director of research at the African Tax Administration Forum (ATAF) from February 2014 to April 2022. She has more than 10 years of experience in tax administration reforms in Africa. She has demonstrated leadership and managerial skills in leading both operational and analytical teams, through major multidisciplinary research, technical assistance, and capacity building programmes at ATAF and the African Tax Institute. She has more than 16 years of experience in research. and policy analysis in Africa. She has published scholarly and policy-oriented research on public economics, tax reform, revenue administration, fiscal decentralisation, and local government taxation. Her work has involved long-term collaboration and advisory services with international research institutions and countries such as Ivory Coast, Nigeria, South Africa, Tanzania, Kenya, Rwanda, Philippines, Uganda, and Vietnam. She has worked as consultant for bilateral and multilateral development organisations, including EU, GIZ, T20, UNDP, IMF and the World Bank. Her experience also covers teaching, thesis supervision and training in public finance, tax administration reforms, fiscal decentralisation reforms, and property taxation. Nara Monkam holds a PhD in economics from Andrew Young School of Policy Studies at Georgia State University in Atlanta, Georgia (USA) and a Master’s degree in economics from the University of Namur in Belgium. Her mother tongue is French. She is a Certified IMF Tax Administration Diagnostic Assessment Tool (TADAT) Assessor.