UNCTAD Economic Affairs Officer Mr. Yves Kenfack Joins the PhD in Sustainability Program

Monarch Business School Switzerland is pleased to welcome Mr. Yves Kenfack, Economic Affairs Officer at the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) into the PhD in Sustainability Program.

Mr. Léonard Yves Kenfack Tsafack, a Cameroonian national based in Geneva, serves as Economic Affairs Officer at the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), where he leads programs that strengthen competition and consumer protection frameworks in developing countries, with a particular focus on Africa. Over his distinguished three-decade career with the United Nations system, he has coordinated capacity-building and policy reform initiatives across regional blocs including CEMAC, WAEMU, COMESA, and ECOWAS, and represented UNCTAD at numerous intergovernmental expert meetings on trade, competition, and consumer law. His research and publications—spanning topics such as competition policy in digital markets, sustainable trade governance, and market inclusivity—have been presented to the United Nations, OECD, and other international forums, reflecting a lifelong commitment to equitable economic development.

Mr. Kenfack Tsafack holds a Master of Business Administration (MBA) from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan Fellows Program in Innovation and Global Leadership (USA), and a Master in Commodity Trading as well as a Diploma of Advanced Studies in Commodity Trading from HEC Geneva, Switzerland. He also earned an M.Sc. in Transport Economics from the Université de la Méditerranée (Aix-Marseille II, France), an M.A. in Industrial Economics from the Université de Caen (France), a B.A. in Economic Analysis and Policy from the Université de Picardie (France), and a B.A. in Economics from the University of Yaoundé (Cameroon). Fluent in both French and English, Mr. Kenfack Tsafack brings to the PhD in Sustainability program at Monarch Business School Switzerland a wealth of experience in international economic governance and a vision for aligning market policy with sustainable development objectives.

Mr. Kenfack Tsafack has an extensive record of scholarly and policy-oriented publications produced over more than two decades at UNCTAD, contributing significantly to global debates on competition law, consumer protection, and sustainable market governance. He has authored and co-authored numerous papers submitted to high-level bodies such as the United Nations Intergovernmental Group of Experts (IGE), the OECD Global Competition Forum, and various United Nations review conferences. His work addresses critical issues including competition enforcement in digital markets, monopsony dynamics, regulatory responses during the COVID-19 pandemic, capacity building for emerging competition agencies, and the interplay between competition and consumer protection policies. His publications also extend to specialized themes such as commodity trading, economic analysis in competition cases, and sector-specific reforms in energy and transportation across Africa. Collectively, his writings demonstrate a sustained commitment to advancing fair, transparent, and development-oriented market systems—an expertise he now brings to the PhD in Sustainability program at Monarch.