Romeo Adjovi

Area of Expertise:

• Government, Governance, Reforms
• Monitoring, Evaluation, Policy, Research, Analysis
• Trade, Finance, Economics, Cooperation, Global

Professional Experience:

04/2019 - Now - Independent Consultant
• GOPA Consultant for Chad: working on international trade reports and EUROTRACE extractions with Comext Browser;
• Expert Pan African Statistical Program: Gabon's Country Migration Assistance from EUROTRACE Access to EUROTRACE SQL;
• Technical assistance in Burundi for the training of international trade statistics executives for training at EUROTRACE - 2nd mission (Afristat - World Bank);
• Consultant - ECOWAS Countries for African Union/European Union for support for migration from Ghana from EUROTRACE Access to EUROTRACE SQL;


12/2014 - 04/ 2019 - Head of the International Trade Statistics Department
• Coordinating the investigation into International CrossBorders Trade survey (ECENE) (1st october 2018);
• Technical assistance in Burundi for the training of international trade statistics executives for training at EUROTRACE (Afristat - World Bank);
• Consultant ECOWAS zone for the African Union/European Union for support for migration from Cape Verde from EUROTRACE Access to EUROTRACE SQL;
• Coordination (Benin) of the International Trade in Services Survey (UEMOA);
• Member of the National Policy Committee for Trade Development;
• Lecturer in International Trade Statistics compilation (INSAE Statistical Training Centre);
• Compilation of official Foreign Trade statistics;
• Production of quarterly External Trade bulletins;
• Report - "Great Traits of Benin's External Trade - 2014";
• Creation of a program to produce the statistical tables presented in the Quarterly Bulletin (VBA- MSSQL)
• Unregistered Foreign Trade Survey at borders - 3rd passage - underway
• Switching from HS hybrid nomenclature to 2012 EUROTRACE Database in Windows
• Completion of studies related to Benin and International Trade in Goods
07/2014 - 09/2014 - Head of The Tertiary Statistics and Activities Department
• Implementation of the methodology for calculating turnover indices
• Establishing a partnership with the Big Firms Directorate to collect source data for turnover indices development (ICA).

12/2008 - 07/2014 – Research assistant
II- (05/2010-07/2014) International Trade Statistical Service / Directorate of Statistics and Economic Studies
• Implementation of an Access application for viewing External Trade data (currently being tested)
• Second-in-command of Benin's External Trade Statistics Database (ECENE)
• Research assistant in in the International Trade Statistical Service, Quarterly and Annual Bulletins, and completion ofthe "ECENE Unregistered Foreign Trade Survey"
• Benin's DATABASE under ETWIN of Foreign Trade Statistics
• Building an ACCESS database for users of Foreign Trade Statistics (Ongoing)
I- (12/2008-05/2010) General Manager
• Assistant to the DG/ Framework at the Modelling Cell: Conducting various studies
• Participation in the General Census of Enterprises as supervisor and editor of the Education report
• Consultant for country data collection, 2010-2011 period for ECOWAS