Mr Kouakou is a junior researcher, currently in his final year as a PhD candidate at the WASCAL Doctoral Research Programme of the University of Lomé, Togo. His area of research centres on climate change and disaster risk management, and his thesis is based on the evolving coastal flood risk along the West African coast. Mr Kouakou previously studied in Delft (The Netherlands) and Abidjan (Côte d’Ivoire), where he obtained qualifications in coastal engineering and port development, and in geology. As part of this project, he will work on the impacts of SRM on sea levels.