Svenja Ossmann is the Associate Director of the Pan-African Scientific Research Council and Entrepreneurship Innovation Hub Africa. Before joining Princeton, she has led a large multicultural team and regional advisory Programme in Support of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) to the African Union based in Ethiopia. Trained as a development economist, she has been working in the field of economic policy and public administration for the past couple of years. First as a project manager on Budget Support at the EU Delegation in Burundi and then with GIZ, the German version of USAID, in Burkina Faso, Germany and Benin. She holds a degree in Public Administration and Economics from the College of Europe in Bruges, the University of Maastricht and the London School of Economics. Besides she is an advanced macroeconomic studies affiliate at the Institute of the World Economy of the University of Kiel.