Sina SCHLIMMER
Research Fellow, Ifri's African Studies Center
Research Interests:
- Urban governance
- Land policies
- Kenya, Tanzania, East Africa
- State formation
- Policy analysis
Sina Schlimmer is a Research fellow at the French institute of international relations - Ifri's African Studies Center. She has a genuine interest in the challenges of governing cities and in land issues in East Africa.
After completing her PhD thesis in political science, which focused on large-scale land acquisitions in Tanzania she specialized on urban land markets during a post-doc at Sciences Po Bordeaux. As a consultant at UN-Habitat in Nairobi in Kenya, she developed an expertise in the socio-economic dynamics of rapidly growing cities in Africa. Sina has undertaken several field studies in Benin, Kenya, and Tanzania.
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