In his role as Chief of Staff, Hamza works directly with IDinsight’s North & West Africa Regional Lead to develop new relationships, implement IDinsight’s regional strategy and contribute to organisational management. He also manages select client-facing engagements with strategic partners. Hamza spent two years as a Relationship Manager at the Investment Bank of HSBC Paris, where he covers large corporate funding projects in the industrial and energy fields as well as sovereign debt emission. Prior to joining IDinsight, Hamza gained research and institutional experience as a Deputy Head of Redistribution and Pensions Division at the French Ministry of Economics and Finance as well as French Representative to the European Commission. Most recently, he managed and coordinated inter-ministerial task force in charge of the global economic recovery measures, in response to Covid-19 Crisis. He has a Bachelor’s degree in Econometrics from the Sorbonne University, a Master’s of Research in Public Policy Analysis from the Ecole Normale Supérieure and a Financial Certicicate from the French Financial Markets Authority.