About Jane Mpapalika

Dr. Mpapalika, a modeler, an UN-Young Professional and an Oxford University Achievement Award Winner in Oil, Gas and Mining, is an economist with practical experience in research and policy analysis. She is an experienced economist, particularly in the areas of fiscal policy, governance, financing instruments (Public-Private Partnerships), gender, climate change and environment. She graduated with a PhD in Economics at the University of Witwatersrand in South Africa in 2018, M.A. in Economics at the Leeds University Business School in the UK in 2010 and a Bachelor’s Degree in Economics from St. Augustine University of Tanzania in 2008. She is currently working as a senior researcher in the Capacity Building and Collaborations Department at REPOA, Tanzania’s main think-tank mandated to influence policy through evidence-based research and policy dialogues. In her various engagements in research, Dr. Mpapalika has been involved in carrying out surveys, evaluations, data collection, supervision, data entry and analysis and report writing. She has worked for the UN Economic Commission for Africa and developed country-specific models for Tanzania, Namibia, and Seychelles. Last year, she won the Most lnfluential Young Economist Award in sub-Saharan Africa in 2022, Oxford Achievement Award in 2022, UN Young Professional in 2019, Witwatersrand. University Post Graduate Merit Award in 2014, and the Graduate Institute of Geneva/Peking University Award in 2016. She is also a member of the African Economic Research Consortium (AERC), UN young, Econometric Society, Economic Society of Tanzania, Econometric Society and South African Economic Society.