Abybah is a Director at Technopolis Africa, with over 13 years of professional experience, within both industry and consulting settings, spanning strategy and operations, project management, monitoring and evaluation. She has thematic expertise and interest in energy transition, climate resilience, sustainable finance, innovation and private sector development, as well as cross-cutting issues of inclusive human capital development and international development cooperation. She has successfully applied a range of methods including desk research, participatory approaches, case studies and benchmarking (regional, countries, sectors, etc.), development of roadmaps and action plans (technology, strategic/policy, etc.).

She has led and contributed to a number of strategic studies and multi-country evaluations in the recent years, assisting international finance institutions (World Bank, EBRD, AfDB), UN / EU and development institutions / agencies (EC DG INTPA, UNDP, UNIDO, ENABEL, FCDO, IDRC, AFD, GGGI, AATIF, IDH, etc.), governments, in and out of Africa. 

She is currently project director for the “Final evaluation of Spain- Côte d’Ivoire debt conversion program in energy infrastructure development” for the Ivorian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. She is also conducting the “External evaluation of Global Energy Efficiency Facility Framework (GE2F2) – Design of strategies and deployment mechanisms” for EBRD/GEF and the “Strategic evaluation of the Team Europe approach” for DG INTPA. She also led and contributed to the following assignments: the “Mid-term evaluation of Green Economy and Numerical Inclusion for Empowerment (GENIE) project in Côte d’Ivoire” for GGGI, the “Study for the first operational phase of the Centre for Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency for Central Africa (CEREEAC)” for UNIDO, the “Mid-term evaluation of Digital Energy Facility (DEF) program and scoping of a second phase of the program” for AFD, the “Appraisal of one investment in NSIA Bank Côte d’Ivoire” for AATIF, the “Impact assessment of the Fund for African Private Sector Assistance (FAPA)” for AfDB, the “Strategic study on digitization and trade for resilience building in West Africa: posturing youth-led and women-led SMEs for the Africa Continental Free Trade Agreement (AfCFTA)” for AfDB, the “Mid-term review and final evaluation of cultural and creative industry projects financed by the Cultural Entrepreneurship Support Fund (FEF Creation) in Africa for the French Ministry of Europe and Foreign Affairs.

Prior to joining Technopolis Group, she has worked with the consulting firm Baringa UK office on climate resilience and energy transition, helping financial institutions and industrial companies understand their portfolios impact, risks and opportunities, and adjust their strategies and investments towards net zero by 2050 (with resilience frameworks, business model innovation, emerging low-carbon technologies and processes, reporting, etc.). She has also worked with the consulting firm Camber Collective France office, supporting a USAID-funded partnership action research project for social and behavioural change in West Africa, using design-thinking. Prior to consulting, she spent 6 years in strategy and operations with SLB (ex-Schlumberger), a global technology company driving energy innovation. She started her career as a consulting engineer in energy.

Abybah earned an MBA from Warwick Business School UK, with a focus on strategy, innovation, and sustainability; and she received a Chevening Award from the FCDO. She holds a MSc in Industrial Engineering with a major in Energy from the Polytechnic Institute of Côte d’Ivoire (INP-HB). She has additional training and certificates in CSR and building sustainable and smart cities from Société Générale Bank, in ESG practices and finance from Corporate Finance Institute (CFI). Abybah works in French (native speaker) and in English (advanced fluency).