Rene Aubourg

Assistant Professor
SPA: Public Administration

• Dr. Aubourg is a quantitative policy analyst with more than ten years of experience in economic growth and poverty alleviation, macroeconomic and fiscal policy management, cost benefit analysis, and project management. He has substantial managerial experience, having served for five years as the Deputy Director of the Money and Economic Analysis Department and the Executive Director of the Training Institute of Haiti’s Central Bank in the 1990s. He has extensive experience appraising large scale development projects, such as the feasibility study for the €100 million Pointe Simon waterfront project in Fort-de-France, Martinique. He has done consulting work for the European Union and the World Bank in Haiti, and for the IMF Institute in Tunisia. He has also worked for local governments and financial institutions in Trinidad and Tobago, St. Kitts and Nevis, Jamaica, and Martinique. Since December 2006, he has conducted more than 15 workshops for senior government officials from Sub-Sahara Africa on best practices in development management and on pro-poor growth policies at Hetta International Development Center in New York City.

• Degrees

  Ph.D. Indiana University
  M.S. Indiana University
  M.P.A. Indiana University
  B.S. State University of Haiti

• Languages Spoken:

  French (native), Creole (native), English (Fluent), and Spanish (passed Caribbean Advanced Proficiency Examination in Functional Spanish)