Dorcas Nthoki

Dorcas Nthoki is a Research Assistant in the Urban Competitiveness and Resilience Department at the Institute for Housing and Urban Development Studies (IHS) at Erasmus University Rotterdam. An urban planner by training, she is actively involved in academic research related to urban development, focusing on econometric training and the applied research of foreign direct investment inflows into African countries and cities. Dorcas contributed to a chapter written by Prof. Ronald Wall for the 2016 OECD report, African Economic Outlook, and presented her research on the competitiveness of port cities at the 2015 Annual ISOCARP Conference in Rotterdam. Currently, she is engaged in research for the UN-Habitat's State of African Cities Report (2017) and supervises Master's students in Urban Management and Development at IHS. Additionally, Dorcas is an instructor for the Coursera course "Studying Cities: Social Science Methods for Urban Research," where she helps students explore various research methodologies relevant to urban studies.