Interview of Armel Kemajou, Excellence in Africa Ambassador, EPFL
© 2022 EPFL
Armel is an architect, specialized urban development in Africa. He joined the World Bank in January 2021, working with the Urban, Resilience and Land (URL) Global Practice.
Prior to this, Armel worked as a PHD researcher for the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL) in Lausanne for four years, where he developed research on the development mechanisms of urban peripheries in selected large cities in West and Central Africa. He had also worked in the private sector in the field of architecture and urban design in the Central Africa region. Armel received his diploma in architecture and urban planning from the African School of Architecture and Urban Planning (EAMAU in French) in Togo, and his PHD in Architecture and Urban Sciences from EPFL in 2013 and 2020 respectively.
Areas of Expertise:
● Urban Planning
● Urban Upgrading
● Land Management
● Informal Transport
● 2020. Kemajou, A. Konou, Rémi Jaligot & J. Chenal (2020). Analysing four decades of literature on urban studies in Africa (1980 -2020). African Geographical Review. African Geographical Review. DOI: 10.1080/19376812.2020.1844025
● 2020. Kemajou, M. Bosch & J. Chenal (2020). A new approach to the collection and spatial analysis of land values in Lomé and Yaoundé, African Journal of Land Policy and Geospatial Sciences, Volume 3, No. 3, 2020. DOI: 10.48346/IMIST.PRSM/ajlp-gs.v3i3.20911
● 2019. Assessing motorcycle taxi activity in Cameroon using GPS devices. A. Kemajou Mbianda; R. Jaligot; M. Bosch Padros; J. Chenal. Journal of Transport Geography. 2019-07-09. DOI: 10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2019.102472.