Raïssatou Joëlle Traore is an International Tax Researcher and Consultant, and she specialises in African tax and tax policies. She is also a PhD candidate in Law at the Institut de recherche juridique de la Sorbonne (IRJS; The Sorbonne Institute of Legal Research), which is responsible for the Department of Public and Tax Law at the Sorbonne Law School (Panthéon-Sorbonne University [Paris-I]).