Hamidou Poufon currently works as head of division in the Department of Economic Affairs, Ministry of Economy and Finance, and as part-time lecturer at the Cameroon School of Public Administration (ENAM). Since July of this year, he has been national program associate of UNFPA, country office in Cameroon, with a particular focus on MDG indicators monitoring, and their use in modeling. In addition, Poufon is in charge of demographic, social, and economic database development. Born in Cameroon, he holds advanced degrees from the Institute of Social Studies (ISS), The Netherlands, and the University of Antwerp, Belgium, including a postgraduate diploma in development planning techniques (specializing in macroeconomic model building), an M.A. in economics of development, and a master’s degree in development evaluation and management. He also holds an engineer of statistics and a B.S. in mathematics from the University of Yaounde, Cameroon. Poufon’s areas of specialization include research methodology, economic modeling, governance, gender issues, cost-benefit analysis, project evaluation, and development.