Stéphanie Abogne is a Principal Consultant 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 cluster competitiveness 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, DRC, Rwanda, Kenya, Uganda, Tunisia, as well as pan-African assignments. 

Before joining Technopolis, she spent four years at a lead consulting company in various capacities. As the technical assistant of the Managing Director, she oversaw the monitoring and evaluation of strategic projects. As a senior economist, she has conducted several economic and financial appraisals of projects in infrastructure, agriculture, urban development and industrial sector development, and provided cutting-edge consulting solutions to governments in Africa. She has developed expertise in the management of complex projects, public policies and strategies design and has worked extensively on projects related to industrial competitiveness, trade facilitation, international relations, and cooperation. She has also developed and gained excellent skills in policy development and program designing related to various economic development issues, working as a policy analyst in the Cabinet of the Minister of Industry and Mining.

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.