Mathias Hounkpe

A mathematician (Université nationale du Bénin) and holder of a M.Phil. in political science (Yale University, USA), Mathias Hounkpe has worked as a political expert for the Unit for Analysis of Development Policies at the National Assembly (Cellule d’analyse des politiques de développement de l’Assemblée nationale, CAPAN) in Benin from April 2003 to December 2010. He has led studies and directed projects for the strengthening of parliamentary capacity in several countries, including Benin, Ghana and Senegal. He currently is the country representative of the International Foundation for Electoral Systems (IFES) for Chad where he runs a project of support to the country’s electoral process. Hounkpe has participated in numerous election observation missions in the west African region (including to Benin, Cape Verde, Ghana, Guinea Bissau and Niger) for ECOWAS. He is the co-author, with Madior Fall, of a study on Electoral Commissions in West Africa, and co-authored another study on the role of security agencies in electoral processes in several West African countries for the Friedrich Ebert Foundation. Mathias Hounkpe was responsible for the research and drafting of the chapters on Benin and Ghana in this study.