I'm an economist. My research topics include : environmental economics (economics of biodiversity and sustainable development), public economics (public goods and mechanisms design) and, incidentally, game theory.
E-Mail : charles.figuieres@univ-amu.fr.
Short bio: I defended my thesis in Economics in 1999, at GREQAM (Marseille, FRANCE). I have since then held positions at University Aix-Marseille II (research and teaching assistant), University Panthéon-Assas (research and teaching assistant), CORE (Belgium, postdoc position), University of Bristol (UK, lecturer), INRA (research fellow from October 2003 to August 2016). In September 2016, I was appointed Professor at Aix-Marseille University (AMU) and Aix-Marseille School of Economics (AMSE).
Responsibilities:
Director of IDEP, from October 2017 to present. In the meantime, IDEP became Public outreach.
Former Associate fellow at IMéRA. Co-organizer of the joint IRD-IMéRA cycle on "Sustainable development".
Founding member and former Vice-President - from June 2013 to August 2019 - of the The French Association of Environmental & Resources Economists (FAERE),.
Deputy director of LAMETA (now CEE-M), from January 2006 to August 2010.