Essama Nssah

Essama Nssah is the Evaluation Methods Specialist for the USAID/PPL Program Cycle Service Center. Dr. Nssah supports the Center's efforts to promote and strengthen the practice of evaluation throughout the U.S. Agency for International Development. He began his career teaching economics for 10 years,and worked for 17 years for the World Bank in Washington DC (11 years of as a Senior Economist). At the World Bank, he performed economic analyses to support the Bank's operations in the client countries, designed and conducted studies of the social impact of development strategies and economic policies in a variety of countries, and for seven years developed and conducted an annual training course on impact evaluation methodologies for World Bank headquarters and field-based staff and their in-country government counterparts. He also wrote several policy research and technical guidance papers on impact evaluation. He holds a Bachelor of Arts in Law and Economics from the University of Yaoundé and a Ph. D. in Economics from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. He is fluent in French.