Keynote Speakers

Lisa Chauvet

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Lisa Chauvet is a Professor of Economics at Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, Fellow of the FERDI and Fellow of the Institut Convergences Migrations. She holds a Ph.D. from the Université d'Auvergne and accreditation to supervise research from Université Paris Dauphine. Her research interests include international financing, economic growth, migration and political economy.

She has been a researcher at IRD, UMR DIAL and a consultant at the World Bank, OECD, Banque de France, Agence française de développement, Direction générale du Trésor and Unesco. She has received several academic awards, including the Wicksell Prize of the European Public Choice Society and the IRD Reward for Scientific Excellence.

Lisa Chauvet has published more than 20 articles in leading journals, as well as several book chapters, and a book on migrants as actors of political change in Africa. She has also contributed to popular medias such as VOX and Encyclopaedia Universalis. Finally, Lisa is Managing Editor of the Revue d'Economie du Développement and Deputy Head of the Centre d'Economie de la Sorbonne (CES).

Nicolas Treich

Researcher Director at the Institut National de la Recherche pour l'Agriculture, l'Alimentation et l'Environnement (INRAE)

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Nicolas Treich is Research Director at INRAE and a member of the Toulouse School of Economics (TSE) at the University of Toulouse Capitole, as well as affiliated with the Institute for Advanced Study in Toulouse (IAST). He holds a PhD in economics and an accreditation to supervise research (HDR) from the University of Toulouse 1. His research interests include risk and decision theory, environmental economics, behavioral economics, cost-benefit analysis, and, more recently, animal welfare economics, an emerging field that seeks to integrate animal welfare into economic analysis.

Over his career, he has published more than 70 scientific articles in leading international journals, along with numerous book chapters and institutional reports. His work has been recognized with several awards, including the Best Paper Award of the European Association of Agricultural Economists (EAAE) in 2023 for the article ‘The Animal Welfare Levy’ and the INRAE Scientific Excellence Award (2024–2026). Most recently, he presented his research on animal welfare economics and the regulation of food systems as a keynote speaker at the 2025 FAERE conference.

In addition to his academic publications, Nicolas Treich has organized numerous international conferences and workshops, particularly on risk management policy, environmental economics, and animal welfare economics. He also contributes to wider public debates through reports, opinion pieces, and interviews. Finally, his forthcoming book, Animal Economics, will be published in 2025 by Cambridge University Press.