Mr. Leonard Yves Kenfack Tsafack is a PhD in Sustainability Candidate. He is 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. Yves Kenfack 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 is a prolific contributor to international policy dialogue, having authored and co-authored more than two decades of influential papers for United Nations intergovernmental expert meetings, OECD global forums, and specialized policy reviews. His work spans critical themes such as competition law in digital markets, monopsony dynamics, competition and consumer protection during global crises, regulatory responses in essential sectors, and the intersection of competition policy with sustainable economic development. His papers—including formal UN submissions from 2007 through 2025—have shaped debates on market governance and institutional capacity-building in developing countries. He has additionally produced sectoral studies on shipping, electricity market liberalization, trade in services, and foreign investment in arable land, underscoring a sustained scholarly engagement with the economic, social, and sustainability dimensions of market regulation.