Matthew Sellar Email & Phone Number

Dakar, Senegal

Triggering a clean and smart transport revolution in West Africa

London, England, United Kingdom

Reconnecting the natural and built environments, using our pioneering living walls

Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands

Revolutionising promotion processes in the workplace, to improve meritocracy, reduce toxic management, strengthen productivity, and increase diversity & inclusion.

Dakar, Senegal

I am the economics lead for the FCDO's Sahel Department, leading on the economic programme and policy for Mali, Niger, Chad, Burkina Faso and Mauritania. I manage our relationship with the World Bank and IMF, led on the economic analysis of our regional and country diagnostics, and did the ground-work for a £100m Digital Financial Inclusion Programme.

Dakar, Senegal

I manage the Estates Team for the British Embassy in Dakar, Senegal, and help to track Covid-19 developments in Senegal to inform our response

London, United Kingdom

I am currently an economic adviser in the UK Department for International Development's Climate and Environment Department. I specialise in adaptation and resilience to climate change for developing countries, namely by helping them plan for changes in weather patterns and extremes. For example, ensuring infrastructure, urban planning and/or agriculture.

UK And Cuba

I founded CubaCasa to help people organise their accommodation with family run bed-and-breakfasts in Cuba. We make the booking process much quicker, easier and safer for the guests thanks to our high-spec website, all the information we have and all the materials we provide. We also help the independent family-run bed-and-breakfasts by securing more guests.

Mexico City Area, Mexico

I spent 10 months seconded as DFID representative to the Mexican Agency for International Development and worked on three main themes:Finance for Development: I produced analysis, liaised with civil society and the private sector, and coordinated with other ministries to determine Mexico’s position for negotiations at the UN in New York. I also produced.

Totnes, Devon, UK

I worked on a cost-benefit analysis model to determine the value of evidence based interventions (EBIs) for children. This covered education, youth justice and care programmes.

Cotonou, Benin

I did my MSc dissertation with the Africa Rice Centre with support from the Centre's senior economist. I looked at whether an ECOWAS import tariff had stimulated rice production in Mali. To do this I used the 3-Staged-Least-Squares econometric technique, storing data and running regressions in Stata. I complemented this quantitative analysis with a.

Master Of Science, Development Economics, Distinction

Activities and Societies: MSc Class Representative, SOAS 5-a-side Football Society President & Treasurer

Master Of Arts With Honours, Economics, 2.1

Activities and Societies: Ethical Economics Society, Model United Nations Debating Society, Capoeira, Football.

Erasmus Exchange, Economics