Christian OTCHIA

I am holding a BCom (Hons) in Mathematical Economics from the University of Kinshasa where I started my research career as a junior lecturer in Statistics, Principles of econometrics, General equilibrium models and Computer assisted data analysis.

While being a junior lecturer in the University of Kinshasa, I worked also for the Bureau d’Etudes Marketing, a market research agency, where I rose from the position of Head of Data Processing and Data analysis to the position of Research Manager. There, I accumulated a wealth of experience across a diversified range of researches (consumer research, media research, health research, social and economic research) and employed a range of research techniques from both qualitative and quantitative disciplines. During my three years at the Bureau d’Etudes Marketing, I played a key role in survey design, data collection, data analysis and the reporting of findings.

In October 2008, I joined Oasis sprl, a Millicom group company and 3rd mobile telephony company in the Democratic Republic of Congo, in the position of Research, Intelligence and Innovation Manager where I received further training in Marketing and Business Intelligence.

During my career, I have worked on research analysis tools like SPSS, EVIEWS, STATA, DAD (A software for Distributive Analysis), XLSTAT, STATISTICA, STATVIEW, SPHINX, CSPRO and participated also on various types of research projects.