Mr. Lawson is a Development Economist with several years of working experience as a Consultant and M&E specialist. Fluent in both English and French languages, he holds a Maîtrise en Sciences Economiques from Université de Lomé (Republic of Togo), a Master of Development Management Degree from the Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration-GIMPA (Republic of Ghana) and an Advanced certificate in Project Monitoring and Evaluation from GIMPA.

As Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist, he conducted the Gender and Sustainability Analysis for Cotton Project in Benin and Burkina-Faso for USAID from 2012 to 2013. He conducted the Mid-term Performance Evaluation of WA-WASH programme in Ghana, Burkina Faso and Niger for the USAID in 2014.

As Capacity Building Expert, he prepared and taught modules in Governance, Leadership, Results Based Management and Change Management under a contract of the joint ROPPA & CORAF at the Peasant University for West African Countries in Benin in 2014. He served as Regional Coordinator on the project Learning: USAID-GHANA Partnership for Education. He is currently the Capacity Building and Monitoring Specialist on the USAID West Africa Trade and Investment Hub. Apart from data collection, monitoring and evaluation, he also served as an Adjunct Lecturer at the GIMPA Business School.