Curriculum Vitae

Sophie Legras
Date of birth : 27 April 1979
Citizenship : French
Phone : +33 (0)5.61.12.88.70
Fax : +33 (0)5.61.12.85.20
Email : [email protected]
LERNA - Toulouse School of Economics
21 allée de Brienne
Aile J.J. Laffont
31042 Toulouse (France)
Current position : Post-Doctoral research fellow, Toulouse School of Economics (INRA-LERNA)
Research fiels : Environmental and Resource Economics. Game Theory. Public Economics.
Degrees and academics
Qualification, section 05 CNU, 2009.
PhD in Economics, Université Montpellier 1 and Australian National University, October 2007.
Thesis title : Contributions to the design of policy instruments : an application to irrigation-induced
salinity in Australia. Jury : Michel Moreaux, John Freebairn, Gilles Rotillon, Marc Willinger, Robert
Lifran (advisor) and Jeff Bennett (advisor). With honors.
DEA (Master) in Agricultural, Agro-food and Rural Economics, Université Montpellier 1 and
Supagro, 2003.
Diplôme d’agronomie générale, Supagro, 2001.
Baccalauréat S, Mention Très Bien, Saint-Denis de la Réunion, 1997.
Academic and professional experience
Since December 2008 : Post-Doctoral research fellow, TSE (INRA-LERNA), Toulouse, France.
January-November 2008 : Post-Doctoral research fellow, GERAD-HEC Montreal, Canada.
June-August 2003, January-July 2005 and July-September 2006 : visiting student at Crawford School,
Australian National University, Canberra (Australia).
March-August 2002 : trainee, Laboratoire de Biologie Végétale, Université de la Réunion, SaintDenis. Publication of Legras, S. et al. (2003).“Biologie de la reproduction d’une espèce menacée de l’ı̂le
de La Réunion (Corymborkis corymbis :Orchidaceae) : implications pour sa conservation” Rev.Ecol. (Terre
Vie),58 :271-282.
October 2001- February 2002 : trainee, the Ecosystem Services Project, CSIRO, Canberra (Australia).
May- august 2000 : trainee, Wienco Fibres Ltd, Tikobo 1 (Ghana).
Other academic activities
Referee for Agricultural Economics, Environmental Modeling and Assessment, Review of Agricultural and Environmental Studies/Revue d’Etudes en Agriculture et Environnement.
Publications in refereed international journals
Legras, Sophie and Lifran, Robert. Dynamic taxation schemes to manage irrigation-induced salinity. Environmental Modeling and Assessment (2006) 11 :157-167.
Legras, Sophie (Forthcoming). Managing correlated stocks : water taxes with a pinch of salt. Environment and Development Economics.
Working Papers and work in progress
Legras, Sophie. Environmental myopia in a multi-pollutants setting : the case of climate change
and acidification. Under revision for Resource and Energy Economics. (A previous version was
circulated as “Management strategies in a multi-pollutant framework”).
Legras, Sophie and Zaccour, Georges. Temporal flexibility of permit trading : what if pollutants are
correlated? Les Cahiers du Gerad G-2008-80 (submitted for publication).
Legras, Sophie and Lifran, Robert. Coupled markets for coupled externalities : water management
in the context of irrigation-induced salinity (submitted for publication). (A previous version was
circulated as “Designing Water Markets to Manage Coupled Externalities : a Preliminary Analysis”
Document de recherche LAMETA 2006-11).
La politique europenne de l’eau (with Sophie Thoyer).
Legras, Sophie (2007). Group performance based instruments to manage environmental issues : an
analysis of strategic interactions (mimeo).
Presentations in conferences and seminars
Conferences :
• 17th Annual Conference of the European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists,
Amsterdam (The Netherlands), June 2009.
• Second Workshop on Game Theory in Energy, Resources and Environment, Montreal (Canada),
November 2008.
• Jeux dynamiques en sciences de la gestion (Montreal), May 2008.
• Montreal Natural Resources and Environmental Economics Workshop,Montreal (Canada), February 2008.
• 15th EAERE Annual Conference, Thessaloniki (Greece), June 2007.
• 7th Meeting on Game Theory and Practice Dedicated to Energy, Environment and Natural Resources, Montreal (Canada) May 2007.
• Journées Jeunes Chercheurs INRA, Toulouse, April 2007.
• 26th Conference of the International Association of Agricultural Economists, Gold Coast (Australia), August 2006.
• 3rd World Congress of Environmental and Resource Economists, Kyoto (Japan), July 2006.
• Second European/EAAE PhD Workshop, Wageningen (The Netherlands), September 2005.
• World Water Week, Stockholm (Sweden), August 2005.
• EAERE-FEEM-VIU Summer School in Resource and Environmental Economics - Dynamic Models
in Economics and the Environment, Venice (Italy), June 2005.
Invited seminars :
• Les Rencontres du GERAD, Montreal (Canada), January 2008.
• Seminaire du GERAD, Montreal (Canada), June 2007.
• Workshop on Dynamic Economics, School of Economics & Finance, Victoria University, Wellington
(New Zealand), August 2006.
• Groupe de travail LAMETA, (Montpellier), April and December 2004, December 2005.
• EMD Forum, Crawford School, Australia National University, Canberra (Australia), April 2005.
Other publications
Thoyer, S. and Legras, S. (2008). L’eau, un bien économique? Magazine de l’URIS-LR n 4, pp. 76-79,
Octobre 2008.
Legras, S. and Thoyer, S. (2008). Quelle est la politique européenne pour la gestion de l’eau? in
Leclerc, M.C. and Scheromm, P. (coord.) L’eau : une ressource durable? Sceren, Poitiers (Ed.) pp
32-37.
Teaching
In charge of the course “Démographie”, 33 hours, Master 1 Sciences Economiques, Toulouse School
of Economics, January - April 2010.
Lectures on “Environmental Economics”, twice 3 hours, second-year students, Supagro Montpellier, 2006 and 2007.
Lectures on “Economie de l’eau”, twice 2 hours, Master 2 EGDAR Supagro Montpellier-Université
Montpellier 1, 2006 and 2007.
Tutorial on “Experimental Economics”, 36 hours, first-year students, Supagro Montpellier, 2004.
Languages skills
French : mother tongue
English : fluently spoken and written
Spanish : very good notions
(CV updated January 18th 2010)