Adama Bah is advisor in Sustainable Economic Development at KIT Royal Tropical Institute (Netherlands). She currently works on evaluation and applied research projects for rural development and social and economic inclusion, mainly in Africa and Asia. She previously worked with the National Team for the Acceleration of Poverty Reduction (TNP2K) in Indonesia, where she conducted research to improve poverty outreach and effectiveness of government social protection policies. She received her PhD in Economics from the CERDI-University of Auvergne in France and her research has been published in academic journals, among which the World Bank Economic Review.