Early Career Women Fellows
Raïssa Roeaneba Zoungrana (Burkina Faso)
Raïssa Roeaneba Zoungrana is a Burkina Faso-based Developmental Economist. She holds a master’s degree in Macroeconomics and Development Management from the Saint Thomas d’Aquin University of Saaba and a second in Gender Population and Development from the Pan African Institute of Development in Ouagadougou. She is currently a Fellow on the African Leadership Centre’s (ALC) Peace, Security and Development Fellowship Programme for Early Career Women in partnership with King’s College London (KCL). Prior to this, she gained 4 years’ experience in the non-profit sector working and volunteering for international organisations as International Service, The Fondation Hirondelle. She also worked for the African Youth Initiative for Development (AYID) as the Director in charge of gender promotion where she successfully implemented several projects and activities focused on tackling gender-based violence and promoting women's empowerment. In 2020 she led a baseline study in the outskirts of Ouagadougou to evaluate the needs of internal displaced people and is leading the implementation of a project focused on the second phase of an educational project designed to help internally displaced children. Raïssa’s research interests include women’s access to resources, conflict resolution, terrorism and the future of internal displaced people.
