Nicolas is Senior Adviser Education in UNICEF, team leader for the Sector Planning, Analytics and Data team based in New York Headquarters, since July 2019. Nicolas joined UNICEF in 2009 as Chief Education in Mauritania country office; from 2011, he spent 8 years in UNICEF West and Central Africa Regional Office (Dakar), as regional education specialist then Regional Education Adviser. Before joining UNICEF, Nicolas worked with French Ministry for Foreign affairs, IIEP Pole de Dakar, UNESCO, the World Bank, and as independent consultant in various functions: teachers/researcher in statistics and econometrics, Education Policy Analyst and Education Economist. Nicolas holds a Bachelor in Econometrics and a Master’s in finance from University of Toulouse, France.