Alban Thomas



Research Director INRAE Email: alban.thomasinrae.fr (alban[dot]thomas[at]inrae[dot]fr) Phone: +33 4 76 74 29 47 Office: 203 (BATEG) CV CV HAL ORCID ResearchGate

 

Research areas

• Agricultural economics
• Resource and environmental economics
• Food security
• Statistics and econometrics
  
   

Positions

- January 2024- : Senior researcher, UMR GAEL (Grenoble Applied Economics Lab), Grenoble.



- July 2021 – December 2023: Senior researcher, Paris-Saclay Applied Economics, University of Paris-Saclay, and Rural Development Observatory, Toulouse.



- June 2021- : Deputy Scientific Directorate Environment, INRAE



- September 2016 – June 2021: Senior researcher, Toulouse School of Economics.



- January 2014 – December 2020: Co-Director of the INRA-CIRAD multidisciplinary (flagship) programme GloFoodS (Transitions Towards Global Food Security).



- July 2013 – June 2021: Head of the Social Science Division (EcoSocio), INRAE



- June 2004 - June 2013: Deputy Head of the Social Science Division (SAE2), INRA



- April 1999 - August 2016: Senior Researcher, Laboratory of Environmental and Resource Economics (LERNA)



- July 1990 – March1999: Junior Research Scientist, Markets and Quantitative Economics (MMQ) research unit, INRAE.

 

Education

• Ph.D. in Economics, University of Toulouse, 1989: Financial applications of AutoRegressive Conditional Heteroskedasticity (ARCH) models (supervisor: Professor Jean-Pierre Florens).



• Habilitation to supervise doctoral research, University of Toulouse, 1994 (committee: Eric Renault, Jean-Pierre Florens, Jean-Jacques Laffont, Alain Trognon and Quang Vuong).

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