Christophe is a co-founder of the BASIC (Bureau d’Analyse Sociétale pour une Information Citoyenne)), a Paris-based coop that pools expertise and conducts work on issues of value creation and distribution and the evaluation of environmental and socio-economic impacts generated within sectors,...

Pierre-Marie Aubert is head of the Agriculture & Food Policy Initiative at the French academic think tank IDDRI. Specialised in landscape ecology and political economy, he works on the development of food system scenarios. In his work, he combines a biophysical approach to the functioning of...

Environmental sociologist, Professor in the Department of Strategy, Social and Environmental Responsibility at the University of Quebec in Montreal (UQAM) in Canada. René Audet is a member of several research networks, he leads his career at the interface of social and environmental sciences,...

A lawyer and member of the Paris Bar Association and of Solicitor of England and Wales (non-practising), Clémentine devotes most of her professional activity to assisting organisations in their legal actions in favour of the ecological, economic and social transition. She works in particular on...

Philippe Baret is an agricultural engineer for tropical regions and holds a PhD in quantitative genetics from the University of Louvain. Professor at the University of Louvain, he is currently deeply involved in a reflection on the role of agroecology as an alternative to industrial agriculture....

Marc Barra is an ecologist at the Île-de-France Regional Biodiversity Agency, which is part of the Paris Region Institute. He leads research and action projects on solutions for better integrating life into public policies, particularly urban policies (nature-based solutions, zero net...

Nicolas Béfort is working on developing a political economy of ecological transition, at the frontier of ecological economics, the economics of innovation and transition to sustainability studies. After having worked on the emergence and organisation of the bioeconomy, he is now interested in the...

Aurélien Boutaud holds a PhD in Earth and Environmental Sciences from the Ecole des Mines in Saint-Etienne, France. (Thesis: "Sustainable development: thinking about change or changing the bandage?) Since 2004, he works as an independent consultant, but also as a lecturer in several French...

Julien holds a PhD in Economics, specialising in environmental and commodity economics. He began his career as a "scarce resources" economist at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He was in charge of environmental and raw materials issues. From 2011 onwards, he also focused on monitoring the...

Louison Cahen-Fourot is a post-doc researcher at the Institute for Ecological Economics of the Vienna University of Economics and Business. I work in the fields of ecological macroeconomics and political economy of capitalism and the environment on topics such as sustainability finance, the...

Christian Chavagneux holds a PhD in economics and is a graduate of the London School of Economics (LSE). He works as a journalist and editorialist for the French monthly Alternatives Economiques, and appears regularly in other French media (“On n’arrête pas l’éco” on France Inter and “La...

Hugues Chenet is an associate professor of sustainability at IÉSEG, and a research associate at University College London (UCL Institute for Sustainable Resources) and at the Energy and Prosperity Chair (Fondation du Risque). D. from the Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, he was a researcher...

A graduate from Sciences po Paris in 2003, Marion Cohen worked for nearly 15 years in environmental NGOs, including ten years as scientific and technical director of the Nicolas Hulot Foundation. In 2017, she founded the company MC Conseil in order to support organisations driving the ecological...

An engineer by training, Christian Couturier is an expert on the energy use of biomass and biogas. He is a member of the NégaWatt association and director of the Energy and Waste division of an association specialising in energy management, renewable energies and the agro-environment.

Florian Couveinhes Matsumoto est Maître de conférences en Droit public au Département de sciences sociales de l’École normale supérieure (Ulm). Membre du Centre de théorie et d’analyse du Droit (Université Paris Nanterre-ENS-CNRS) et membre associé de l’Institut de Hautes Études Internationales...

Patrick CRIQUI (HEC-75), Emeritus Research Director at the CNRS and the UGA, works on the economics of energy transition and climate policies at the Grenoble Applied Economics Laboratory (GAEL). He is also a scientific advisor to ENERDATA and an associate researcher at IDDRI. His early research...

Lecturer and researcher at the University of Lille and member of the Lille Centre for Sociological and Economic Studies and Research (Clersé).

Tristan Dissaux is a post-doctoral researcher at the Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), within the Centre for European Research in Microfinance (CERMi). He is interested in monetary innovations and the political economy of money, from a social-ecological transition perspective. His current...

Adel is secretary general of the European Energy Research Alliance (EERA) and professor of Energy Geopolitics at the Free University of Brussels (U.L.B.) He conducted several socio-economic studies on the Clean Energy Transition and leads EERA advisory activities to the European Commission...

As an economist at the French development agency AFD, Étienne Espagne is particularly interested in climate mitigation and adaptation policies in emerging and developing countries. Étienne Espagne is an environmental and development economist. His research programmes focus on the socio-economic...

Clément Fontan is professor of European Economic Policy at UcLouvain and University of Saint-Louis Brussels. He is co-director of the journal Politique Européenne and coordinator of the political economy research section of the French Political Sciences association. He published in many academic...

Patrice Geoffron holds a PhD in industrial economics and is a professor at the University of Paris-Dauphine, where he was interim president and international vice-president. He also directed the Economics Laboratory (LEDa) from 2007 to 2015. He has been a visiting professor at Bocconi University...

Natacha Gondran is a professor of environmental assessment at Ecole des Mines Saint-Etienne and the UMR 5600 Environnement Ville Société. With Aurélien Boutaud, she co-authored “L’Empreinte Écologique” (New edition, 2018) and “Les Limites planétaires” (2020), both published in the "Repères"...

Florence Jany-Catrice is a French economist specialising in the study of employment in services and economic indicators (or new wealth indicators). She is a professor at the University of Lille and a researcher at the Lille Centre for Sociological and Economic Studies and Research (CLERSE-CNRS).

A graduate of the École des Mines de Paris and of the "Master El Karoui" in Probability and Finance (Sorbonne University), Julien Lefournier worked for almost 25 years in the financial sector in Paris, London and New York, for major French banks (Société Générale and Crédit Agricole) and...

Sylvie Landriève co-directs the Forum Vies Mobiles, a research and exchange institute on mobility. Previously, she set up and managed private and public real estate and urban development projects (BNP Real Estate, SNCF). With a background in human sciences (Sorbonne and Sciences-Po Paris) and in...

Benjamin Lemoine is a research fellow in political sociology at the CNRS. He is a specialist in sovereign debt and in the analysis of the links between States and globalized financial markets within the Political Sociology of the Economy team at the Institute for Interdisciplinary Research in...

Nadine Levratto is an economist and works at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) and at the University of Paris Nanterre. She also works as an expert for the European Commission, the OECD and various French regional and national institutions (ANR, ANRT, France Stratégie,...

Harold Levrel is Professor of Ecological Economics at AgroParisTech and Université Paris-Saclay. He is a researcher at the Centre International de Recherche sur l’Environnement et le Développement (CIRED) and co-director of the Ecological Accounting Chair. His work focuses on the conditions for...

Olivier Mériaux was a researcher at Sciences Po between 1999 and 2015, where his academic work focused on the interactions between public policies and social relations. At the same time, he was a scientific advisor to the Commissariat Général du Plan and the Centre d’Analyse Stratégique between...

Mathilde Pernias has a PhD in Management Sciences, specializing in socio-environmental accounting, and holds a Master’s degree in Development Economics from Grenoble Alpes University and a Master’s degree in Corporate Finance from Audencia. She worked in the CSR department of a major group before...

Research Associate, Ifri Energy & Climate Center Cédric Philibert is an independent consultant and senior analyst on energy and climate issues, with a focus on renewable energies for industry and transport, and the role of electrification and hydrogen in the decarbonization of the global...

After studying engineering, Judith Pigneur worked on the social and environmental impacts of mining, in NGOs (ISF France, SystExt, and Friends of the Earth), with companies (Basic, Fairphone) and in academia (CentraleSupélec). Her PhD work focused on the depletion of metallic resources, and in...

Jean-François Ponsot is Professor of Economics at the University of Grenoble-Alpes. His research focuses on the political economy of money, innovative financing for development and the history of Keynesian thought. Favouring interdisciplinary synergies, he studies the nature of money, the sources...

Marc Pourroy is a lecturer at the University of Poitiers, co-director of the Master’s degree in Money-Banking-Finance and member of the CRIEF laboratory. His work focuses mainly on monetary policy in emerging economies and aims to define the responses to exchange rate, capital and commodity...

Anne-Caroline Prévot is a research director at the CNRS and a researcher at the Centre for Ecology and Conservation Sciences (CESCO) at the National Museum of Natural History in Paris. Trained as an ecologist, Anne-Caroline Prévot works at the interface with the human and social sciences to...

Docteur en Économie ainsi qu’en Philosophie politique, Augustin Sersiron est spécialiste de la monnaie et de la justice sociale. Ses recherches portent sur les conditions institutionnelles de la bifurcation écologique et sociale, dans une perspective pluridisciplinaire. Il promeut un régime...

An economist specialising in monetary theory, Bruno Théret is Director of Research at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) and works at the Institut de Recherche Interdisciplinaire en Sciences Sociales (IRISSO), UMR 7170 of the CNRS - Université Paris Dauphine, where he is...

Docteur en sciences de la complexité, Thierry Pauchant est professeur honoraire à HEC Montréal où il a fondé la Chaire de management éthique. Diplômé de la Sorbonne, UCLA et USC, il est l’auteur de plus de deux cents publications, dont douze livres, incluant Adam Smith, l’antidote ultime au...

Lecturer and researcher at the University of Paris I and member of the Centre for Economics at the Sorbonne.

Julien Vastenaekels holds the Junior Professorship in Ecological Transition Economics and Bioeconomy at the University of Reims Champagne-Ardenne (URCA). He is a member of the REGARDS laboratory (URCA) and also serves as a scientific collaborator for the Socio-Environmental Dynamics Research...

Head of the "Prospective Energie Ressources" project at the French Environment and Energy Management Agency (ADEME). Scientific advisor to the review “Futuribles International”, Eric Vidalenc also writes a blog for the French monthly Alternatives économiques.

Arnaud Zacharie is Secretary General at CNCD-11.11.11, a federation of Belgian development NGOs and local movements,). He is also a lecturer at the Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB) and the Université de Liège (ULiège), as well as a professor at the Hautes Ecoles de Bruxelles (HEFF and HE2B)...