Joseph Atta-Mensah

Joseph Atta-Mensah, until the end of August 2023, was a Principal Policy Adviser in the Macroeconomics and Governance Division at the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA). Joe’s responsibilities included ensuring that the key policy findings in ECA research are used to support policy implementation at national, sub-regional, and continental levels. He also worked on macroeconomics, monetary economics, and economic models. At UNECA, Joe also led teams in providing policy advisory services to national, sub-regional, and regional institutions and assisted them in the formulation of strategies, programs, and projects on macroeconomics and monetary economics.

Joe was also the Director of the Office of Strategic Planning and Programme Management at UNECA, where he supervised program planning and policy coordination as well as the monitoring and evaluation of UNECA’s program of work. Joe has also served as the Director of Regional Integration, Infrastructure and Trade at UNECA, where he focused on research and analysis on Africa’s regional integration, infrastructure, and trade policy issues. He has also advised governments, the Regional Economic Communities (RECs), and other stakeholders on regional integration, infrastructure, trade, and macroeconomics. Before joining UNECA in July 2004, Joe worked as a Senior Economist at the Bank of Canada.

Joe holds a doctorate degree in Financial Economics from the Simon Fraser University in British Columbia, Canada, and has several refereed scientific articles under his name. Joe’s research interests are: regional integration, macro-and monetary economics and economic development.