Senyo Fofo AMETEPE
32, rue des Ecoles Edouard Manet
77520 Donnemarie-Dontilly, France
+33 6 62 54 14 52

Togolese citizenship
Born on 06/11/1979

Summary

  • Result-driven PhD with strong skills in statistical/demographic methods (descriptive analysis, ANOVA, factor analysis and clustering, panel data modelling and survival analysis) and tools (Stata, SPSS, SAS)
  • Excels in the management and valorization of various datasets (CRM) with the ability to work across organizational boundaries
  • Research fields include retirement, migration, social protection, social exclusion (non-take-up), homeless study, quantitative methods in social sciences, life course analysis, and survival analysis
  • Member of the UAPS (Union for African Population Studies), the IUSSP (International Union for the Scientific study of Population) and the SFdS (SociétéFrançaise de Statistique)
  • Hard working mentality combined with entrepreneurial mindset.

Experience

Research Officer

/ Since May 2015
CNAV - French National Pension Service, Paris - France
  • Spearheading studies on the level of the pensions and on the transition processes from work to retirement

Statistician/Demographer

/ May 2012-May 2015
SIAO/Samusocial de Paris, Paris –France
  • Built the data registration system of homeless people and implemented data collectionin adherence toquality and high standards which ensure the protection of individual information
  • Specific studies on few topics such us homeless with less than three years old children or pregnant women among homeless people

Statistician, Research Data Analyst

/ March 2011–April2012
INED, Statistical Methods Department, Paris –France
  • Research activities, data collection, evaluation, analysis and documentationfor the MAFE project (Migration between Africa and Europe, European project FP7) with strong collaboration with African and European partners
  • Provided methodological assistance for quantitative analysis and development of statistical tools

Post-doc Researcher in Demography and Economics

/ August 2008-July 2010
CESP/INSTEAD, Differdange (Luxembourg)
  • Using the panel data from 5 waves of European Surveys on Income and Living Conditions (EU-SILC), performed Hausman tests and pinpointed the instrument variables for analysing the significance of the immigration for social security schemes in Luxembourg

Statistician Research Assistant

/ 2004 – 2005
INED/URD (Université of Lomé Togo), Paris – France/Lomé - Togo
  • Contributedto the Togolese survey on migration and urbanization throught the monitoring of the data collect and the supervising of the data entry.
  • Performed statistical programming tasks and ensured the structuration of the datasets and their valorization. Throughout the Kaplan Meier estimator and Cox model, evaluated the effect of the training's place on the professionnal insertion of migrants in the labour market in Lomé (Togo).

Research and Teaching Assistant October 2006 – June 2008
Sociology Department, University de Picardie Jules Verne, Amiens - France
  • Delivered courses on quantitative data analysis, survey monitoring and demographic analysis
Research July 2010 – August 2010
IOM (International Organization for Migration), Luxembourg
  • Expert on the analysis of "Integration and impact of the immigrants on the Luxembourg labour market"
Research September 2010 – December 2010
Luxembourg National Contact Point (EMN/NCP-Luxembourg), Luxembourg
  • Statistics expert for the EMN - European Migration Network

Education

University of Paris 10-Nanterre

/ 2004-2008
Paris, France
  • PhD in Demography

ENSEA 1998-2000

Paris, France

  • Statistics Engineer

PUBLICATIONS

KABBANDJI Lama, LEVANTINO Antonina et AMETEPE Fofo, 2013 –« Migrations internationales étudiantes ghanéennes et sénégalaises : caractéristiques et déterminants » in Cahier québécois de démographie, vol 42, n°2, pp. 303-333.

AMETEPE Fofo, 2012 - “The effectiveness of Luxembourg's minimum guaranteed income" in International Social Security Review, Volume 65, Issue 1, pp 99–116

Hartmann-Hirsch, Claudia / Amétépé, Fofo: 2011, L’assistance sociale est elle un régime réservé aux nationaux? In Jungblut, M.-P.; Wey, C., Armes Luxemburg? BegleitbandzurgleichnamigenAusstellungim Musée d’Histoire de la Ville de Luxembourg, Luxembourg: Musée de l’Histoire de la Ville de Luxembourg : 292 – 304.

AMETEPE Fofo and HARTMANN-HIRSCH Claudia - “An outstanding Positioning of Migrants and Nationals: The case of Luxembourg" in Population Review - Volume 50, Number 1, 2011, pp.195-217

AMETEPE Fofo and HARTMANN-HIRSCH Claudia. – “Luxembourg’s corporatist-Scandinavian welfare system and incorpation of migrants” in IMIS Beiträge”, Heft 41: 81 - 103.

Hartmann-Hirsch, C. and Ametepé, F, 2010, Luxembourg in Platonova, A., Urso, G. (ed.) Migration, Employment and Labour Market Integration Policies in the European Union, Part I: 195 – 204; Part II: 155 – 161. Bruxelles: IOM

Ametepe, Fofo/ Hartmann-Hirsch, Claudia, Eligibility and take up of social assistance for immigrants and nationals: the case of Luxembourg? In Working papers 2010-05, Differdange: CEPS/INSTEAD

ANTOINE Ph., ADJAMAGBO A., AMETEPE F., BEGUY D., DIAL F., FERRAND M., TICHIT C., 2009 : "Unions and separations: loves stories are never simple" in GRAB : Fuzzy states and complex trajectories: observation, modelling, and interpretation of life stories, INED-Ceped, Collection Méthodes et savoirs, n°5, Paris, p. 61-86.

AMETEPE F., LOCOH T., 2004. – "Gender and poverty in Lomé ", Etude de la population africaine / African population studies, vol. 19, n° 1, p. 59-80.