Professor Célestin Monga teaches public policy and
economics at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government
and at the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne.
He is also a Distinguished Professor on the staff of the
School of Economic and Business Sciences and the Wits
School of Governance, Faculty Associate at the Center
for International Development at Harvard University, and
Fellow at the Harvard University Center for African Studies.

Professor Monga has held various board and senior executive positions in academia,
financial services, and international development institutions, serving most recently as
Managing Director at the United Nations Industrial Development Organisation (UNIDO),
Vice-President and Chief Economist of the African Development Bank Group, and
Senior Economic Adviser/Director at the World Bank Group.

Professor Monga has published extensively on various dimensions of economic and
political development. His books have been translated into several languages and
are widely used as teaching tools in academic institutions around the world. His most
recent works include The Oxford Handbook of Structural Transformation (Oxford
University Press), with J.Y. Lin; Beating the Odds: Jump-Starting Developing Countries
(Princeton University Press), with J.Y. Lin; the two-volume Oxford Handbook of Africa
and Economics, with J.Y. Lin; and Nihilism and Negritude: Ways of Living in Africa
(Harvard University Press). He holds graduate degrees from Massachusetts Institute of
Technology, Harvard University, and the Universities of Paris and Pau.