Joseph Martial Ribeiro is a professional civil engineer with a Ph.D. in hydrology. He is a registered member of the Quebec Order of Engineers. He has worked in academic and industrial research in Canada, and as a private consultant in Canada and West Africa. He has also been a lecturer in hydrology and statistics at the École Polytechnique de Montréal and in applied statistics at the CESAG (Centre africain d'études supérieures en gestion), a business school in Sénégal. He currently works with the African Development Bank, based in Tunis, as a Procurement Specialist and Project Task Manager