sophie.thoyer

Prof Sophie Thoyer

Center of Environmmental Economics of Montpellier (CEE-M)

INRAE (Montpellier, France)

Current and past positions

April 2025-present: Deputy scientific director for Agriculture at INRAE (French National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food and Environment)

January 2020 -present: Research Director at INRAE at the Center for Environmental Economics of Montpellier (CEE-M), France - Adjunct head of the Economics and Social Science Department of INRAE

March 2020 - present: Head of the INRAE Metaprogramme "Bioeconomy for urban areas" (BETTER)

January 2020-March 2025: Adjunct Director of the scientific Department "Economics and Social Science" at INRAE

June 2018-December 2010: Head of the Scientific Department "Territoires" at IRSTEA (France)

May 2007-June 2018: Professor in agricultural and environnemental Economics at Montpellier Supagro (France)

January 2003-January 2004: Invited senior lecturer at University of Western Australia (Australia)

October 1994-April 2007: Lecturer and senior lecturer in Agricultural economics at ENSAM (France)

January 1990-September 1994: Assistant lecturer and lecturer in development economics at Wye College, University of London (UK)

Education

1989 – Engineer in Agronomy (equivalent to a Master’s degree) with a specialization in Economics, AgroParisTech

1990 – MSc in Development Economics, Imperial College, University of London

1996 – PhD in Economics, University of London (Imperial College)

2005 – Habilitation to Supervise Research (HDR), University of Montpellier

Awards and Distinctions

2018 - Member of the French Academy of Agriculture

2014 - Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur
2019 - Alison Burrell Award for best article in the European Association of Agricultural Economics seminar

2005 - "Going North" Award by the American Agricultural Economist Association, for the article « Assessing the Performance of Auctions for the Allocation of Conservation Contracts: Theoretical and Computational Approaches » (with A. Hailu and Steve Schilizzi) – Presented at the annual Congress of AAEA, 27-29 juillet 2005, Rhodes Island.

2003 - Henry Shapper Fellowship awarded in 2003 by the University of Western Australia for a one-year position as visiting academic