Prior to joining IDinsight, Julius was a Statistician and Consultant at Cabinet T-Ventures in Benin, his home country where he engaged in projects related to public finance, gender mainstreaming, and climate change integration into budgeting with the United Nations Development Program and the Collaborative African Budget Reform Initiative (CABRI). He also formerly interned with the US Embassy in Benin. Julius holds a Master in Mathematics Economics and Statistics from the African School of Economics (ASE) and DTS (Licence) en Planification at Ecole Nationale d’Economie Appliquée et de Management (ENEAM). He is fluent in English, French, and Fon.