Associate consultants
Development Economics, Industrial Organization, Applied Econometrics
Pierre Dubois holds a Ph.D. in Economics from Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), Paris and CREST (Center for Research in Economics and Statistics), Paris. His fields of interest are development economics, industrial organization and econometrics. He has published extensively on these topics. He is a Professor of Economics at the University of Toulouse.


Wednesday April 20, 2011
International Trade, Finance and Macroeconomics

Zdenek Drabek holds a D.Phil. from the University of Oxford, an M.A. from the University of Cambridge and an MSc from the University of Prague. His main interests are in international trade and finance and open macroeconomics. Prior to his most recent work as adviser to the World Trade Organization and senior economist at the World Bank, he was the chairman of Economics Department at the University of Buckingham and minister in the government of former Czechoslovakia. He has published widely in major academic journals as well as several books on international economics. His most recent book, 'Is the World Trade Organization Attractive Enough for Emerging Economies?' was published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2009 in London.


Wednesday April 20, 2011
Quantitative Evaluations, Evaluation of Development Programmes

Alice Mesnard has in-depth experience of quantitative evaluations. She has worked with complex data sets for impact analyses of development programmes, such as the conditional cash transfer programme 'Familias en Accion' in Colombia. She is currently senior economist at the Institute for Fiscal Studies and teaches in both France and the United Kingdom. Her research focuses on economic development, policy evaluation and migration. She holds a PhD with highest honours from the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris.


Sunday January 16, 2011
Macro-economics, Environmental Economics

Franck Portier holds a PhD from Université Panthéon-Sorbonne. His fields of interest are macro-economics (monetary and fiscal policy, international macro-economics, applied time series) and environmental economics (sustainable growth, the greenhouse effect and economic analysis of the Kyoto Protocol). He has published widely on these topics. He is a Professor of Economics at the University of Toulouse where he teaches macro-economics at doctoral level.


Saturday January 15, 2011
Private Sector Development, Regional Development

Marc Simeoni holds a PhD in Management Studies from the University of Corsica and specialises in private sector development. His consulting experience includes project management, export promotion and regional development.


Wednesday January 12, 2011
Infrastructure, Corruption and Industrial Organization

Stéphane Straub is a professor at the Toulouse School of Economics, specialising in issues of infrastructure, corruption, and more generally industrial organization in the context of developing countries. After spending 10 years in Paraguay, where he worked as an entrepreneur, private consultant, university professor and government advisor, he has held academic positions in the US, the UK and France. He is also a consultant for the World Bank and the Inter-American Development Bank among other international organizations.


Monday January 10, 2011