Stéphanie Abogne is a Director at Technopolis Africa with 13 years of experience leading complex, multi-country evaluations and analytical studies across Africa. Her work spans education and skills development (higher education, TVET, quality assurance), youth employment and employability, research and innovation systems, SME and private sector development. She is recognised for combining methodological rigour with practical, decision-ready recommendations that support programme redesign and inform policy choices.

She has served as Team Leader and Principal Investigator on assignments for leading international partners including the World Bank (AAU/IUCEA and GPE), FCDO, UNESCO, IDRC, Enabel and DAAD. Her technical toolkit covers mixed-methods evaluation design and implementation, including randomised controlled trials (RCTs), tracer studies, econometrics, bibliometrics, key informant interviews (KIIs), focus group discussions (FGDs), contribution analysis and triangulation. She is equally comfortable engaging with ministries, donor agencies, higher education institutions, private sector associations, and programme implementers, and regularly facilitates validation and restitution workshops to ensure uptake of findings. She has delivered multi-country portfolios across West, East, Central and North Africa, including Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana, Guinea, Togo, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, Kenya, Uganda and Tunisia.

Stephanie holds a master’s degree in Statistics and Applied Economics from ENSEA (Senior Statistician Economist) and an MSc in International Development, Public Policy, and Management from the University of Manchester. She also holds a postgraduate diploma in public administration with a major in public policy and program evaluation.  She is a Mandela Washington Fellow (2016) where she obtained a certificate at the Public Management Institute at Florida International University. She is also a UK Chevening alumni. She works in French and English.