Adil Ababou joined the Gates foundation in 2021 where he focuses on sovereign debt and public financial management reforms. Adil joined the foundation from MIT where he worked on randomized impact evaluations. Prior to that, Adil worked for most of his career with governments in Africa, focusing on issues of debt sustainability, development finance, and budget reform. As a French Treasury official, he helped provide multilateral debt relief to low-income countries with the Paris Club and coordinated bilateral economic and financial relationships with the MENA region. In 2017, he joined the Collaborative Africa Budget Reform Initiative (CABRI) where he launched a Pan-African initiative to provide government support for budget reform. He was also a teaching assistant in economics at Sciences Po Paris and Pantheon-Sorbonne University. Adil holds an MSc. in Management from ESCP Europe, an M.Phil in International Economics from Pantheon-Sorbonne University and an MPA/International Development from the Harvard Kennedy School.