I am doing development and environmental economics and my work is essentially focussed on West African agricultural sector.

I am especially interested in weather events, their impacts and the design of weather index-based insuances with high density rainfall stations networks. In this context, I tested the interest of rainfall indices applied to millet and cotton productions, respectively in South West Niger and Northern Cameroon. I simulated ex ante insurance gains for farmers of this two regions and tested its robustness to contracts parameters calibration.

I also studied cotton policies in Sub-Saharan Africa, looking for a supply side response to institutional reforms.

Beside the agriculural sector, I am also interested in informal activities and the labor market, which was my first step into development economics. Regarding those issues I wrote 2 papers, the first on the French home services reform (master thesis in French, cf. academic work) and the endogenous impact of formal training in Senegal and Kenya manufacturings.

PRESENT POSITION :
Post-Doc at Ecole Polytechnique, Paris

Septembre 2011 - Mars 2012 : AMID (Marie Curie) fellow at CRED, Namur.

2008-2011: PhD candidate at CIRED, Paris, France.

2006-2007 : Master in Sustainable Development, Sciences Po.

2005-2006 : Master in Macroeconomics, La Sorbonne.

2005-2006 : École normale Supérieure de Cachan.