SERGE HOUNTON
Junior Area Coordinator

Serge works as a Junior Area Coordinator at Samuel Hall. He joined Samuel Hall in October 2022, bringing with him an analytic mindset and strong project management skills across strategy, capacity planning, and scheduling areas. He has extensive knowledge in migration and forced displacement policy research as well as experience in international development projects in Benin, Ghana, Kenya, Senegal and Togo and familiarity with experimental research design (Randomized Control Trials) for program evaluation.

Serge has over 6 years of experience conducting high-quality research, monitoring and evaluation involving fieldwork in migrants, forcibly displaced and vulnerable population settings. He has proven experience in implementing qualitative and quantitative research and evaluations using robust designs. In addition, he has excellent leadership and communication skills in French and English, as well as experience in writing research reports and policy analysis. He has researched migration, remittances, families left behind, refugee economies, trade, and international development. He was a research fellow at Peace Institute, Department of Political Science at Moi University, where he researched the economies of refugees in Nairobi.

Previously, he had been a research assistant at Institute for Empirical Research in Political Economics (IREPE) in Benin. He was Climate Change and Migration Focal Point at United Nations Major Group for Children and Youth (UN-MGCY). He was a research assistant at the Center for Human Rights, Gender and Migration at Washington University in St Louis. He holds a Bachelor's degree in Econometrics and Statistics from the University of Abomey-Calavi in Benin.

In addition, he is two master's degrees holder, one in Economics at the African School of Economics and the other in Political Science focusing on Forced Migration Studies at Moi University in Kenya.