I am Professor of Economics at Le Havre Normandie University. I hold a PhD in Economics from the University of Nice Sophia Antipolis. I am specialised in development economics, with main interests in gender inequality, climate change and model-based policy analysis. Before, I was the Research Director of the Modelling Policies and Impact Analysis (MPIA) group for Partnership for Economic Policy (PEP) at Laval University in Quebec. I also worked as a researcher at the European Commission Joint Research Centre in Sevilla and the Financial and Fiscal Commission (FFC) in South Africa. I am affiliated with the research centre EDEHN (Equipe D’Economie – le Havre Normandie), of which I was the research director from 2019 to 2023. I am also affiliated with the global research network Partnership for Economic Policy (PEP).
Activities and Updates
2026-09-15: Book chapter, European and global climate policies: pursuing fairness and carbon neutrality in an increasingly fragmented world, with Jacopo Cammeo, Albert Ferrari, Simone Borghesi,Jorge Davalos, Martin Henseler, Afees Salisu, and Idris Adediran, in Navigating Transitions to Sustainable Human Development: Frameworks, Evidence and Policies, edited by M. Biggeri and A. Ferrannini
2026-04-04: Academic article, Climate Change and Gender Inequality: Economic Impacts on Women in South Africa accepted in Environment and Developement Economics, with Martin Henseler
2026-01-13: Academic article, Gender-Specific Effects of Russia-Ukraine Conflict. Evidence from South Africa published in the Revue d'Economie Politique, with Muhammad Ayaz, Martin Henseler and Mazhar Mughal
2025-12-13: Academic article, Climate Change Impacts on Women’s Migration and Poverty in Burkina Faso published in the European Journal of Development Research, with Boureima Sawadogo and Ismael Fofana
2025-10-15: Our T20 Policy Brief Gender-Responsive Policies for Post-Crisis Achievement of SDGs is online. Thanks to the co-authors Martin Henseler, Jane MARIARA, Jorge DAVALOS, Heinrich BOHLMANN, and Jessika BOHLMANN
2025-09-24 : New Working Paper, Modelling the WEFE nexus on Reunion Island, with Olivier Beaumais and Martin Henseler from the InnWater, Horizon Europe Project, available here: https://hal.science/hal-05176215/
2025-05-30: New Working Paper from SPES, Horizon Project. https://www.sustainabilityperformances.eu/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/D7.3-SPES-Working-paper-on-The-distributional-effects-of-European-climate-policies-in-the-Global-South-%E2%80%93-a-model-assessment-for-Egypt.pdf
2025-04-30: New ODI Synthesis report https://odi.org/en/publications/lessons-from-the-russia-ukraine-war-assessing-african-economies-resilience-to-external-shocks/
2025-04-25: Stakeholder Workgroup meeting, InnWater, Horizon Europe Project. Presentation with Olivier Beaumais and Martin Henseler.
2025-03-04: Panelist at the "Knowledge sharing meeting on lessons learned on impacts and policy responses to the Russia-Ukraine. Implications for building resilience against future shocks in Africa. " organised by ODI
2025-01-31: Stakeholder Workgroup meeting, InnWater, Horizon Europe Project. Presentation with Olivier Beaumais and Martin Henseler.
2025-01-15: New academic article published in the journal World Developement Perspective co-authored by Margaret CHITIGA, Martin HENSELER, and Ramos MABUGU
2024-09-15: Gender Expert presentation, Impact of the war in Russia-Ukraine on the African economies Egypt and Kenya: a gendered macro-micro modelling assessment on the virtual workshop organised by IDRC.
2024-09-03: Final report presentation with Martin Henseler, and Jorge DAVALOS: Impact of the war in Russia-Ukraine on the African economies Egypt and Kenya: a gendered macro-micro modelling assessment on the virtual workshop organised by AERC, ODI, and IDRC.
2024-08-08: NTS Insight (popularization) has published our article Economic Impacts of Climatic Change on African Women written with Martin Henseler.
2024-05-13: Presentation of the interim report with Martin Henseler, and Jorge DAVALOS: Impact of the war in Russia-Ukraine on the African economies Egypt and Kenya: a gendered macro-micro modelling assessment on the virtual workshop organised by AERC, ODI, and IDRC
2024-01-31 SPES (Horizon Europe project) meeting in Bordeaux School of Economics. Working Package 7, with Jorge Davalos and Martin Henseler for PEP as partner.
2023-11-20 Invited speaker RSIS Webinar on “Climate Change and the Women, Peace and Security Agenda”
2023-10-23: The journal IDS Bulletin has published our article Co-Modelling for Relief and Recovery from the Covid-19 Crisis in Zimbabwe by Ramos MABUGU, Martin HENSELER, Margaret CHITIGA and Albert MAKOCHEKANWA, in its issue Knowledge in Times of Crisis: Transforming Research-to-Policy Approaches. The paper presents a model-based analysis of Covid-9 mitigation measures in Zimbabwe. By applying PEP’s participatory approach, we combine economic modelling with local policy decision makers’ expertise.
2023-06-15: Presentation at the 26th Annual Conference on Global Economic Analysis (Bordeaux, France): "Broadening Engagement in a Resilient and Sustainable International Trading System". I presented in the session: "Global Effects of the War in Ukraine” our paper "Impacts of the Russia-Ukraine War on women in four African countries".
2023-04-13: New article published in the journal International Review of Environmental and Resource Economics co-authored by Margaret CHITIGA, Martin HENSELER, and Ramos MABUGU: The article is a narrative literature review on the nexus between climate change and women focussing on the gendered impacts and adaptations in developing countries.
2023-03-20: The Partnership for Economic Policy global research network (PEP) presents me through its newsletter as one of the PEP Pioneers.
2023-02-07: New article published in the Journal Economic Modeling together with Ramos MABUGU, Martin HENSELER, Margaret CHITIGA and Albert MAKOCHEKANWA. An output of a research project in the program Covid-19 Responses for Equity (CORE) funded by PEP and IDRC. Content: The assessment of COVID-19 impacts, adaptation and recovery policies in Zimbabwe.
2023-01-28: New article published in the International Journal of Microsimulation together with Francois CABRAL and Martin HENSELER. An output of a research project in the program PEP Rapid Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic, funded by PEP and IDRC. Content: COVID-19 impact analysis through the gender lens in Senegal.
2022-11-15: Presentation at the IEA-UNDP-WB Conference: Understanding the Gender and Climate Change Nexus (15-17 Nov 2022, virtual) organised by the International Economic Association (IEA) & UNDP (United Nations Development Program) (UNDP) & The World Bank (WB). I presented our paper on the macroeconomic impacts of climate change on South African women, which are more vulnerable than men.