A seasoned, dedicated development strategist and an achieved multi-sectorial programmer with over 30 years of professional experience with strong interpersonal and communications skills who enjoys team work while actively playing leadership roles involving extensive organizing, macro trends planning & problem solving yet paying close attention to detail, using analytical tools and figures to demonstrate performance and accountability in a strong spirit of integrity, and passion as fuel for lifelong learning and sharing towards sustainability in development work to fight poverty wherever and whenever. Koffi provides leadership in country program design, oversight and implementation with strong macro trends analysis and problem solving skills, monitoring and evaluation. Koffi holds a Ph.D. in Economics from Westfälische Wilhelm Universität Münster in Germany with 30 years of experience working with national and international development organizations including Plan International and Catholic Relief Services. He also has previous experience working for the private sector including commercial banks. He has mainly focused on the development of multi-faceted programs including health, education, water & sanitation, livelihoods with cross-cutting issues (gender, child, HIV/AIDS) through the implementation of appropriate programs including income-generating activities, farming, animal raising, fishery, improved grain storage and high-performance poverty lending through microfinance. Before joining Habitat, Koffi was the Technical Adviser for the Livelihood (Microfinance and Food Security) at Plan Togo, and was coordinating the programs of the Microfinance Network for Plan International West Africa Regional Office. Koffi is familiar with 19 countries in the 4 Sub-Saharan African countries, having carried out diverse development tasks in such countries.

Specialties: Strategic Leadership, Planning & Development. Organizational Development Solutions Execution. Liason & Coordination with Agencies.Team Management & Supervision. Community Development. Networking. Monitoring & Evaluation. Trilingual Translation (French, English & German).