Abdoul Wahid Massaoudou Namata

I am a data scientist and quantitative analyst, currently a Research Consultant with Development Impact (DIME) at the World Bank Group. I have previously worked with CIRANO, the Chair in Macroeconomics and Forecasting (ESG UQAM), and Orange Innovation.

Most of my work starts where the data is least usable. I design and maintain structured, reproducible pipelines that clean, reconcile, and consolidate heterogeneous — and often incomplete — administrative microdata: business registries, tax records, survey micro-data. That means record linkage and fuzzy matching across systems with no common identifier, deduplication, missing-value imputation, and the data-quality controls that make the result defensible.

Alongside that, I work on macroeconomic forecasting — Bayesian VAR/SVAR models, Taylor rules, conditional forecasts — and on causal inference for policy evaluation. More recently I have been applying transformer models and generative LLMs to large text corpora, building sentiment indicators from tens of thousands of news articles.

I hold an MSc in Economics (quantitative) from ESG UQAM in Montreal, a Master’s in Development Economics from CERDI in France, and a BSc in Economics and Management from Hassan II University in Casablanca.

Beyond the work

Outside research I play basketball and football, and I am a long-time chess player — the habits of long-term planning transfer more than you would expect. I currently serve as President of the Graduate Students’ Association in Economics (AECSE) at UQAM, where I organise academic events and manage the association’s budget.