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4 AT I O B Alumni applause PhD Congrats to Dr Kilosho! On 5 April, IOB alumnus Janvier Kilosho (GOV, 2010 ) succesfully defended his PhD entitled ‘Industrialisation et Traçabilité minières au Sud-Kivu : Quel avenir pour les exploitants miniers artisanaux?’ Janvier was awarded a joint PhD in development studies (University of Antwerp) and economics (University of Leuven) within the framework of a PhD fellowship from the Institutional University Cooperation programme (IUC) VLIR-UOS. In his research, he studies the mining sector in East DR Congo focusing on tensions between artisanal and industrial modes of production. He is a junior lecturer at Université Catholique de Bukavu and a team member of CEGEMI and the Laboratoire d’Economie Appliquée au Développement (LEAD – UCB). Published! IOB alumnus Christian Senga (Training ‘Governing for Development, 2010) Danny Cassimon and former IOB staff Dennis Essers have published a new ACROPOLIS- BeFinD Working Paper (No 23, April 2018) on ‘Sub-Saharan African Eurobond yields: What really matters beyond global factors?’ IOB alumnus Pierre Merlet (GLOB, 2009), current IOB student René Rodriguez- Fabilena and Gert Van Hecken have been working on the development of a simulation game with IOB partner Nitlapan-UCA in Nicaragua. They wrote an article about this process ‘Playing before paying? A PES simulation game for assessing power inequalities and motivations in the governance of Ecosystem Services’ which has just been published in the journal Ecosystem Services (2018) E xchange to change J une 2018