Curriculum Vitae

PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND

• 2023 - today Associate researcher at the Centre for Studies and Researches on International Development (CERDI) – University Clermont-Auvergne, France.

• 2015 - today: Research Officer, FERDI, Clermont-Ferrand, France.

• 2022: International Finance Corporation (World Bank) STC.

• 2021: World Bank STC.

• 2008 - 2014: Research Assistant, FERDI, Clermont-Ferrand, France.

• 2009 -2010: Anti-corruption expert and trainer, European Commission (EC), DG Europeaid.

• 2008 : World Bank STC.

• 2007 - 2014: Lecturer in microeconomics, Clermont Graduate School of Management, and University of Auvergne, Clermont-Ferrand, France.

EDUCATION

2025 Habilitation à Diriger la Recherche, CERDI-UCA, Clermont-Ferrand, France.

2014 & 2019 French Qualification for Assistant/Associate Professor tenure. 

2013 Ph.D. in Economics, CERDI – University Clermont-Auvergne.

Doctoral thesis: "Export instability, corruption and how the former influences the latter",  summa cum laude.

Jury: Patrick Guillaumont (CERDI, Supervisor), Bernard Gauthier (HEC Montreal, Referee), Jan W. Gunning (VU Amsterdam, Referee), Olivier Cadot (HEC Lausanne), Alexander Sarris (University of Athen), Jean-Louis Combes (CERDI), Vianney Dequiedt (CERDI, President).

2007 M.Sc in Development Economics (Research track) // 

 M.Sc. in Project management and analysis in developing countries (Professional track), CERDI – University Clermont-Auvergne, Clermont-Ferrand, France.

2006 Master in Latin-American Comparative Studies, University Sorbonne-Nouvelle (IHEAL, Paris III), Paris, France.

2005 Master (Maîtrise) in International Economics, University Pantheon-Sorbonne (Paris I), Paris, France.

RESEARCH STAYS

November 2022: Visiting researcher at Aix-Marseille School of Economics (AMSE), Marseille, France.

August 2018: Visiting researcher at Bar-Ilan University, Economics Department, Tel-Aviv (Ramat-Gan) Israël.

AWARDS & DISTINCTIONS

Elinor Oström Prize  laureate with Elise S. Brezis for the best full-length article published in the  Journal of Institutional Economics in 2019.

Finalist of the U4 Proxy Challenge Competition 2014, Chr. Michelsen Institue - U4 Anti-corruption Center.

GRANT

African Economic Research Consortium, "Digital connectedness and export upgrading: is SSA catching up?", PI, (15K USD).

REFEREEING

World Development Perspective, Journal of Comparative Economics, Plos One, Public Administration Review, Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Information Economics and Policy, Telematics & Informatics, Journal of African Economies, Journal of Economic Surveys, Journal of Development Studies, International Review of Economics and Finance, Oxford Development Studies, African Development Review, Baltic Journal of Economics, Economics Bulletin, Revue Economique, Revue d'Economie du Développement.

CONFERENCES – SEMINARS – WORKSHOPS

2025

• Journées Louis-André Gérard-Varet, AMSE, Marseille.

• Global Development Network's rountable "Imagining the Future from the Global South: The Promise of Digital Public Infrastructure" at Clermont Innovation Week 2025.

• Workshop on "E-trade in Africa", Robert Schuman Center, European University Institute, Florence.
• Council on Economic Policies Webinar, Africa’s digital transformation and the integration of services markets.
• CSAE Conference in Oxford.
• Research seminar at CES - Paris 1 University, Clermont-Ferrand.
• Research seminar at BSE, Bordeaux.
• Research seminar at CERDI-UCA, Clermont-Ferrand.

2024

• Research seminar at the US Federal Communications Commission.
• International Conference in Development Economics, AMSE-AFEDEV, Marseille.
• Journées Louis-André Gérard-Varet, AMSE, Marseille.
• World Bank-IFC Flagship Conference on digitalization and Development, Invited Speaker, Sciences Po Paris.
• Research seminar at DIAL- PSL University, Clermont-Ferrand.
• Research seminar at CERDI-UCA, Clermont-Ferrand.

2023

• UNCTAD E-week, Invited speaker, Geneva, Switzerland.
• Digital Trust Chair's Conference, organizer and speaker, ENSEA, Abidjan, CI.
• CSAE Conference in Oxford.
• United Nations LDC 5 Conference. Session panelist "Covid-19 crisis and risks of deepening digital divide : strengthening inclusion and digital sovereignity for greater resilience in the LDCs", Doha, Qatar. 
• Executive working group on Digital Governance organized by the Organisation internationale de la francophonie (OIF), Geneva, Switzerland.
• 5th Annual Conference of Government and Economics April 22 hosted by the SAGE and the Journal of Government and Economics, Beijing, China.  

2022

• European Commission's Development Days (Brussels), organizer of the brainstorming session "Digitalization and resilience to adverse shocks in a developing context". 
• ICDE conference (CERDI-UCA, Clermont-Ferrand).

2021

• Canadian Economics Association Conference,  
• DIAL conference (PSL University, Paris)

2020

• Ferdi's Digital Trust Chair Webinar series, organizer and speaker.

2019

• Royal Economic Society meeting (University of Warwick, UK), 
• INFER Annual Conference (VUB univ, Brussels), 
• DIAL conference (PSL University, Paris). 
• Research seminar at the Center for Global Development (London, UK).
• Research seminar at Gretha-University of Bordeaux 4, (Bordeaux, France).

2018

• DEGIT XXIII conference (Higher School of Economics, Moscow), 
• Research Seminar at UCA-CERDI,  
• International Development Economics Colloque  - GDRI (UCA-CERDI, Clermont-Ferrand), 
• CESifo Area Conference on Digital Economics  (Munich, Germany)

2017

• AFSE Annual Meeting on Economics and Finance (Gredeg Nice)
• DIAL conference (PSL University, France)
• Research seminar at Banque de France.

2016

• European Public Choice Society Conference (Freiburg, Germany)
• OECD Integrity Forum (Paris).

2015 

• European Public Choice Society Conference (University of Groningen, Netherlands)
• 9th CESifo Workshop  on Political Economy(Dresden, Germany).

2014

• European Public Choice Society Conference (University of Cambridge, UK)
• U4 Proxy Workshop (Chr. Michelsen Institute, Bergen, Norway)
• AFSE Annual Meeting on Economics and Finance (ENS Lyon)
• Research seminar at the University of Navarra, Navarra Center for International Development.

2013

• DIAL Conference on “Institutions and Development” (Paris-Dauphine University, France)
• Research seminars at Gretha (University Bordeaux 4, France) and UCA-CERDI (Clermont-Ferrand, France).

2009

• Europeaid anti-corruption workshop for the European External Action Service staff.