Sering Touray is an economist with the Poverty and Equity Global Practice - West and Central Africa. He works on The Gambia, Cabo Verde, and Guinea Bissau. He has previously worked on poverty analytics in Sudan, the Central African Republic; and Haiti; and a co-author in a regional flagship report on inequality in Southern Africa. He is interested in using alternative data sources such as Call Detailed Records (CDR) and geo-spatial data for welfare analysis. He joined the World Bank in April 2017 as one of 10 fellows of the Africa Fellowship Program. He holds a Ph.D. in Economics from Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh, a master’s degree in Economics from the University of Edinburgh’s School of Economics, both graduate degrees under the Scottish Graduate Program in Economics (SGPE), and an undergraduate degree in Economics and Computer Science from the University of The Gambia during which he was an Exchange Student to St. Mary’s College of Maryland, US.