Bio & Resume

I started studying economics during my engineering studies at Ecole Nationale des Ponts ParisTech (et Chaussées). I then confirmed my interest for the field during three consecutive internships. The first one at the Banque de France focused, in 2012-13, on the follow-up of the Greek crisis and associated crisis management by international institutions ; the institutional reforms following the van Rompuy report and the first steps towards a banking union (including ESM and FESF mechanisms). I remained another 5 months at the Banque de France working as a research assistant on Chinese quarterly national accounts, for Ramos-Tallada (2015, JIMF) and on the development of financial emerging markets. I concluded this gap-year working 2 months in New Delhi, India at the Global Development Network. This public international organisation builds research capacity in developing economies  in economics and social sciences. I worked on the conceptualization of a project to measure natural wealth in developing countries.

I then completed my graduate studies in a double diploma at the Paris School of Economics in the Analysis and Policy in Economics master.  There, I followed classes in international macroeconomics and finance, development economics, macroeconomics and economic history. I wrote my master dissertation What if all countries were actually in the same boat? A comparison of countries' vulnerability based on Markov Switching Models under the supervision of Daniel Cohen (PSE - ENS). During the second semester, I started teaching at University level. I never stopped since then. In February 2015, I started my PhD at the Paris School of Economics - Ecole Normale Supérieure while funded by and working at the Banque de France. 

I spent the first three years of my research in the International Monetary Relations Division working on my own research on macroeconomic volatility, development and financial crises. I also contributed to the institutions by writing policy notes and coordinating the conduct of the article IV consultation by the IMF for the Banque de France. This proved detrimental to my use of these documents in my narrative work on financial crises. In 2018, I moved back completely at PSE while being a teaching assistant at Université Paris 1 - Panthéon Sorbonne and at the PSE. I involved myself in my teaching activities while deepening my research on financial crises.

During the summer 2020, while completing my dissertation, I remote interned at the International Monetary Fund in the Strategy & Policy Review department Macro-Policy division. I worked on recent asset purchase programs in times of Covid and created with co-authors a new database tracking the flow of information provided by national authorities to market participants on these (novel) measures. This internship proved determinant in confirming my interest to understand deeper how communication shapes economic and financial decisions. I am particularly looking forward deepening narrative methodologies as a way to capture, through the narration of past events, the motivations and narrated information sets of economic and financial agents in times of crisis.

I have always involved in intra- and extra- curricular activities. At the Banque de France, I animated the PhD students' group, reshaped and developed the PhD seminar. I took part in many associations throughout my student life, notably defending the rights of the LGBT+ community, of which I am a pride member =) I've played theater in a club for 14 years and I have been practicing swimming in a club regularly for the past 2 years. On the Job Market, I will not just be looking for a job but for colleagues to work with as I have in the past and for a place to enjoy. 

I always enjoy a good discussion, talk, walk, lunch or drink. I deeply believe a balanced life with good pinches of human relationships is the best motor for a pro-active and happy dynamics. My PhD was not always happy times, and over 2019-20, I fell sick to a depression and a burn-out. Climbing back up was a long but enthralling path and I am truly glad to be moving forward ever more so motivated by my research and personal projects (podcasts, books). If I mention this sickness, it is not to kindle empathy. Economics as a field is particularly exposed. See an article in Nature on the topic and a study from a Harvard team on the matter, and follow as well Claudia Sahm, who has discussed these drifts over recent years. I truly believe that freeing the narration on these issues is a definite first step towards bettering our practices.