Curriculum Vitae

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Current Position

PhD Candidate in Ecological EconomicsSeptember 2022 – present CIRED / AgroParisTech / Université Paris-Saclay, Paris, France Supervised by Harold Levrel (AgroParisTech) and Antoine Godin (AFD), under the Ecological Accounting Chair.

Affiliations

  • PhD Candidate, Université Paris-Saclay
  • International Research Center for Environment and Development (CIRED)
  • Associate Researcher, French Development Agency (AFD)
  • Former Associate Researcher, Coalition for Climate Capacity (C3A) Nature Hub, World Bank
  • Earth System Governance Research Fellow Network

Research Visits

Year Institution Location Host
2026 Sciences Po – CRIS Paris, France Dr. Lucas Chancel
2025 Technical University of Munich (TUM) Munich, Germany Pr. Florian Egli
Feb.–Mar. 2025 Duke University Durham, USA Pr. Felwine Sarr
Feb.–Jun. 2023 Senegalese Institute for Agricultural Research (ISRA) Dakar, Senegal Pr. Tamsir Mbaye

Fellowships & Awards

  • 2026 — Charles Gide Grant, Economy and Philosophy research program
  • 2023 — CLAND Grant (cross-disciplinary research on biodiversity dynamics and land-use socio-economics)
  • 2022Veblen Prize — Master’s Thesis Award

Policy Experience

Expert, French Delegation (Ministry of Foreign Affairs) IPBES Plenary on Business and Biodiversity, Manchester, UK — February 2026

Invited Speaker, Ministry of Finance (Hacienda), Bogotá, Colombia — March 2025

Delegate, Young Scholars Initiative (IUCN France) COP 15 on Biodiversity, Montreal, Canada — December 2022


Publications

See the Research page for the full list.


Skills

Programming: R (data.table, tidyverse, Rcpp), Python, LaTeX

Methods: Ecological economics · SFC macroeconomic modelling · Econometrics · Sensitivity analysis · Optimal transport · NLP/text analysis · Multi-objective optimisation

Languages: French (native) · English (C1) · German (B2) · Russian (A2)


Referees

Pr. Harold Levrel — AgroParisTech, Biodiversity Economics — harold.levrel@agroparistech.fr Dr. Antoine Godin — Macroeconomist, AFD — godina@afd.fr
Dr. Rémi Prud’homme — Researcher, CIRAD — remi.prudhomme@cirad.fr Dr. Romain Svartzman — Economist, Bocconi — romain.svartzman@unibocconi.it

Employment History

Short-Term ConsultantJanuary 2024 – June 2025 The World Bank (C3A Nature Hub), Paris, France International financial instruments to reverse nature loss.

Data AnalystMay – November 2022 Office Français de la Biodiversité (OFB), Paris, France Developed the indicator “State Spending Harmful to Biodiversity” (Ecological Accounting Chair / FRB).

Secretary GeneralSeptember 2019 – January 2022 Institut Rousseau, Paris, France Board of Directors and Editorial Committee; editorial strategy, working groups, press campaigns.

InternNovember 2019 – March 2020 ClimateWorks Australia (Monash University), Melbourne, Australia Net Zero Momentum Tracker; Land Use Futures; Energy Transition Initiative.

Student InternMay – September 2019 Ministère de l’Économie et des Finances, Paris, France

Research AssistantJanuary – May 2019 Revue Française d’Administration Publique (RFAP) / École Nationale d’Administration (ENA), Strasbourg, France


Education

Year Degree Institution
2020–2021 Master, Energy, Finance & Carbon (EFC) Université Paris Dauphine PSL
2018–2020 Master, Administrative & Judicial Careers Sciences Po Grenoble
2016–2017 International Mobility Year University of Ottawa
2015–2018 Bachelor, Institutions & Mutations of Public Action Sciences Po Grenoble