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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)
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