17 June 2025Valentin is a researcher at INRAE and the CEE-M, where he investigates the economic relationships between land use and sustainable development. His research focuses on the direct and indirect effects of sustainability policies, particularly in the context of commodity-driven deforestation. He applies micro-econometric methods to explore these dynamics, with a special interest in causal inference.
Valentin’s work spans several areas, including sustainability policies in cocoa supply chains in West Africa, palm oil-related deforestation in Indonesia, pan-tropical indirect land use change, and the food security implications of biofuel policies.
Before joining the CEE-M, Valentin worked as a postdoctoral researcher at UCLouvain and with the Trase initiative, as part of the SUSTAIN-COCOA project. He holds a PhD in economics, jointly awarded by Université Paris-Saclay and Humboldt Universität zu Berlin in 2022. During his doctoral studies, he was supervised by Raja Chakir at the Paris-Saclay Applied Economics research unit (PSAE), and by Sabine Fuss and Nicolas Koch at the Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change (MCC).