CV AL - Antoine Leblois

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Antoine Leblois

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01/26/1983 (29 years old) Ecole Polytechnique, department of economics. 91128 Palaiseau Cedex Tel: +33 (0)9 54 77 10 33 +33 (0)6 49 64 03 10 E-mail : antoine.leblois‘at’gmail.com

Current position Post doctoral researcher at Ecole polytechnique.

Education ´ ´ 2009 - 2012: PhD candidate at EHESS (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales) in CIRED lab (Centre International de Recherche sur l’Environnement et le D´eveloppement). Dissertation: “Organizational changes for Sub-saharan African agriculture: essays on cotton sector reforms and index-based insurances”.

2007 - 2008: Master’s degree at Sciences Po in Sustainable Development, internship at DIAL (a center for development economics research of the IRD, Institut de Recherche pour le D´eveloppement).

2005 - 2006: Master’s degree in Macroeconomics at La Sorbonne.

´ 2003 - 2005: Bachelor’s degree in economical sciences at Ecole Normale Sup´erieure de Cachan, joined in 2003 (12th ) at the economics and management department.

Research • Publications ⋆ Agricultural insurances based on meteorological indices: realizations, methods and research agenda, with P. Quirion, forthcoming in Meteorological Applications [link]. ⋆ Sub-saharan African cotton policies in retrospect, with C. Delpeuch, forthcoming in Development Policy Review.

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⋆ Vuln´erabilit´e et adaptation de l’agriculture sah´elienne au climat, avec B. Sultan, A. Alhassane, B. Barbier, C. Baron, M. Tsogo, A. Berg, M. Dingkuhn, J. Fortilus, M. Kouressy, R. Marteau, B. Muller, P. Oettli, P. Quirion, P. Roudier, S. B. Traore et M. Vaksmann, La m´et´eorologie, in press. ⋆ L’Assurance agricole indicielle en Afrique de l’Ouest, principes, premi`eres r´ealisations et perspectives, with B. Muller, M. Sall, A. Bald´e, M. Fall, P. Kouakou, and F. Affholder, to appear in Agronomie Africaine, CORAF, 2012. • Book Les assurances agricoles fond´ees sur des indices m´et´eorologiques, with P. Quirion, in V. Ancey., B. Dedieu, M. Antona, I. Avelange, G. Azoulay, I. Darnhofer, B. Hubert et B. L´emery. 2012. Agir en Situation d’Incertitude, ed. Peter Lang, col. Eco Polis, forthcoming. • Working papers ⋆ Weather-index drought insurance: an ex ante evaluation for millet growers in Niger, with P. Quirion (minor revisions submitted, Environment and Resource Economics) [link]. ⋆ The elusive quest for supply response to cash-crop market reforms in sub-Saharan Africa: the case of cotton, with C. Delpeuch (major revisions, WBER) [link]. ⋆ Potential of weather index-based insurance for a cash crop regulated sector: the case of cotton in Northern Cameroon, with P. Quirion & B. Sultan [link]. ⋆ Endogenous wage returns to training in African manufacturing, with C. J. Nordman [link]. • Work in progress ⋆ Risk aversion, risk management: cotton growers agricultural practices in Cameroon. ⋆ How 80’s droughts impacted female health in Western Africa? Matching body mass and experienced normalized difference vegetation indices.

Conference presentations • AFSE (French association of economists) congress, Paris, June 2012. • AMMA (African Monsoon Multidisciplinary Analysis) conference in Toulouse, June 2012. • JRC (EU) technical meeting on weather index-based insurance, Ispra (Italy), May 2012.

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• CSAE Conference, Oxford, March 2012. • AFSE (French association of economists) congress, Paris, Sept. 2011. • EAAE congress held in Zurich, Sept. 2011. • DIAL international conference on ‘Shocks in developing countries’ in Paris, June 2011. • ‘Agriculture and Shared Growth in Africa’, Brookings Institution, Washington, Jan. 2011. • ‘Environment and Natural Resources Management in Developing and Transition Economies’, Clermont-Ferrand (CERDI), Nov. 2010. • ‘Agir en Situation d’Incertitude’, Clermont-Ferrand (CIRAD), Nov. 2010. ´ • ‘Adaptation au Changement Climatique de l’Agriculture et des Ecosyst` emes’, ClermontFerrand (INRA), Oct. 2010. • EAAE PhD workshop in Giessen (Germany), Sept. 2009. • AMMA (African Monsoon Multidisciplinary Analysis) conference in Ouagadougou (Burkina Faso), July 2009.

Work experiences • Teaching experience ⋆ 2010-2011: Financial tools (L3) & Development economics (M1) at La Sorbonne. ⋆ 2009-2010: Macroeconomics at La Sorbonne & Insurance and risks at AgroParisTech (both M1). ⋆ 2008-2009: Statistics (L1) & Development economics (M1) at La Sorbonne. ⋆ 2007-2008: T.A. at Sciences Po in two International economic relations courses (L2) and organization of the first ‘global classroom’ in sustainable development (M1), video conference for MDP (joint program including Sc. Po and SIPA at Columbia); Development economics (M1) at La Sorbonne; General economics (BTS) at a school of informatics. • Other experiences ⋆ Visiting fellow at CRED (FUNDP, Namur) within AMID (Actors, Markets, and Institutions in Developing Countries: A micro empirical approach) network facility: a Marie-Curie Fellowship (Sept. 2011-March 2012). 3

⋆ Field work: household survey implementation and risk aversion elicitation in the Cameroonian cotton zone, November-December 2012. ⋆ Research assistance at DIAL on migrations and diasporas (Mirem database, from the European Institute of Florence) and on employer-employees matched databases (the World Bank’s RPED) in Africa (July 2007 - February 2008). ⋆ Research assistance at the INSERM (Institut National de la Sant´e et de la Recherche M´edicale, French insitute of health and medical research), Marseilles (June - September 2004). ⋆ Steering committee member for a project lead by AFD and GRET on microinsurance and warrantage AFD WP No 113, 2011. ⋆ Ad hoc referee for the Journal of Geography and Regional Planning (JGRP), the French journal S´echeresse1 (Droughts), the French Research Ageny (ANR) and for the 2011 and 2012 International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report. ⋆ Interview for citations in the actuary periodical: l’actuariel of June 2012 on climatic risks.

Personal skills • Foreign Languages: English, (TOEFL IBT: 92/120, in december 2006) and German. • Softwares: ⋆ Stata and Matlab. ⋆ Latex, basics in Html and VBA programming. • Other: database management, especially matching of world gridded climate databases and daily rainfall data with macro and micro data.

Grants • Joint ILO’s Microinsurance Innovation Facility and European Development Research Network (EUDN) research grant (2010). • AMID, Marie-Curie pre-doctoral (six months) fellowship in Namur (2011-2012). • 3-years Doctoral grant from the French Ministry of Research and Higher Education (20082011).

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Science et changements plan´etaires / S´echeresse

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Referees Philippe Quirion, (CNRS research fellow) Centre International de Recherche sur l’Environnement et le D´eveloppement & Laboratoire de M´et´eorologie Dynamique (Universit´e P. et M. Curie). 4, place Jussieu, Case Postale 99 F 75252 Paris Cedex 05, France Tel: +33 1 44 27 74 62 Fax: +33 1 44 27 62 72 E-mail: [email protected]

´ Eric Strobl, (Tenured prof., Ecole Polytechnique) ´ CECO, d´epartement d’´economie de l’Ecole Polytechnique 91128, Palaiseau Cedex Tel: +33 1 69 33 34 16 Fax: +33 1 69 33 34 27 E-mail : [email protected]

St´ephane Hallegatte (World Bank, CIRED-Meteo-france) Senior Economist (the World Bank) & Centre International de Recherche sur l’Environnement et ´ le D´eveloppement & Ecole Nationale de la M´et´eorologie, M´et´eo-France. 1818 H Street, N.W., Washington, DC 20433. Tel: +33 1 43 94 73 95 Fax: +33 1 43 94 73 70 E-mail: [email protected]

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