gaëlle balineau –economist

GAËLLE BALINEAU – ECONOMIST
Address (Office)
FERDI, 63 bd F. Mitterrand
63000 Clermont-Ferrand (France)
Phone: +33 (0)4 73 17 75 44
Fax: +33 (0)4 73 17 75 38
Address (Home)
52, avenue Julien
63000 Clermont-Ferrand (France)
Cell Phone: +33 (0)6 22 25 33 84
E-mail: [email protected]
Nationality : French
Born : 08/28/1982
Gender : female
Fields of competence: - Impact Evaluation, Survey Design and Implementation, Project Management
- Agricultural Economics, Producers’ Organizations, Cotton, Fair Trade
- Economics of Quality, Economics of Standards, Demand analysis
- Econometrics, Statistics, Database management
Country work experience: Mali, Cameroon
EDUCATION
Ph.D. in Development Economics, Centre for Studies and Research on International Development (CERDI) and
University of Auvergne, Clermont-Ferrand, France (dir: Prof. P. Dulbecco & C. Araujo-Bonjean)
2010
Thesis: “Is Fair Trade a development tool?”, research fellowship financed by the French government.
M.Sc. Research, Development Economics, CERDI (Bien / grade A)
2005
M.Sc. Professional, Project Management, CERDI (Très Bien / grade A)
2005
Maîtrise in Economics 1st year M.Sc), University of Nantes (Très Bien / grade A)
2004
Bachelor’s Degree in Economics, University of Nantes (Bien / grade A)
2003
Bachelor’s Degree in Sociology, University of Nantes (Bien / grade A)
2003
Hypokhâgne and Khâgne B/L, Lycée Guist'hau (Nantes) and University of Nantes
2000-02
Baccalauréat Sciences Economiques et Sociales (Très Bien / grade A)
2000
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Research Fellow – Ferdi (Think Tank for development, Clermont-Ferrand, France)
o Research papers on Fair Trade and Trade and Climate Change
April 2011 – Present
Scientific coordinator, Ferdi conference on Fair Trade
Consultant – World Bank
o Field work: Impact evaluation of the automation of external trade procedures
on trade and corruption (Douala, Cameroon, feasibility study - 20 days)
o Opportunities for trade in Environmental Goods in South Africa, with I. Gillson
(24 days)
o Case story on the effect of tariff reductions in environmental goods, with J. de Melo
(18 days)
Consultant – International Trade Center (WTO and UNCTAD)
o Evaluation of the World Bank Aid-for-Trade ITC Program “Market Analysis Tools for LDCs”,
with J. de Melo
Feb.-May 2012
April 2012
June 2011
Jan. 2011
Oct.-Nov. 2011
Research and teaching assistant, University of Auvergne and CERDI (Clermont-Ferrand, France)
o Courses: Game Theory, Fair Trade, Demography, Impact Evaluation
2007-2010
Field and research coordinator – Impact evaluation of the project “Fair Trade cotton in Mali”
2006-2008
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Impact evaluation financed by the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Regional Council of Auvergne.
Main work: Design, carry out and supervise a rural producers’ organizations survey in Mali, in order to
construct a database for the impact evaluation of Fair Trade cotton project.
Field work (100 days between Sept. 2006 and March 2008): Qualitative evaluation and feasibility study,
recruitment and training of the interviewers, questionnaire design and testing, day-to-day supervision of
data collection and entry.
Analysis: Report for the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Jun. 2008), and two research papers.
RESEARCH
Papers
o “Are Fair Trade goods credence goods? A new proposal, with French illustrations” (with I. Dufeu), Journal of
Business Ethics, 2010, 92 (suppl.2), 331-345.
o « Le renforcement des organisations de producteurs de coton au Mali: enjeux, impact et leçons du
commerce équitable pour la privatisation de la filière », Canadian Journal of Development Studies, 2011, 32
(3), 297-312.
o “Exploiting Trade in Environmental Goods for the Pursuit of Green Growth: Recent Developments and
Implications for South Africa” (with I. Gillson), 2011, Background paper for South Africa Economic Update.
World Bank, Washington, DC.
o “Stalemate at the Negotiations on Environmental Goods and Services at the Doha Round” (with J. de Melo),
FERDI Working Paper P28 (revisions requested, The World Trade Review)
o « Le système Fairtrade: une garantie pour les consommateurs? » (with I. Dufeu) (revise and resubmit to
Mondes en Développement)
o “Disentangling the Effects of Fair Trade on the Quality of Malian Cotton”, FERDI Working Paper P39
(submitted to World Development)
o The demand for Fair Trade products: evidence from scanned data on French consumers (in progress)
Conferences
o 7th ADERSE Conference “Corporate Social Responsibility and Innovation” La Rochelle, France, March 2010)
o AfrEA-NONIE-3IE International Conference “Perspectives in impact evaluation” Cairo, Egypt, April 2009)
o Third and Fourth Fair Trade International Symposium (Montpellier, France, 2008; & Liverpool, UK, 2012)
Awards
o Young researcher award (Banque Populaire award), Young Researcher Competition, Clermont-Ferrand, 2011
o Young entrepreneur award, Student Innovative Entrepreneur Competition, French Ministry of Economic
Affairs, Paris, 2009.
LANGUAGES
French: native
English: fluent
Spanish: fair
COMPUTING
MS Office, MS Project, Epidata, WITS
STATA, LaTeX
Web Of Science, Endnote Web
REFERENCES
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
- Catherine ARAUJO-BONJEAN, Economist, PhD Thesis
supervisor, CERDI (France)
[email protected]
- Jenny C. AKER, Economist, PhD thesis examiner, Tufts
University (USA), [email protected]
- Patrick EOZENOU, Economist, World Bank (ex-IFPRI)
[email protected]
- Member of Fairness (Research Network on Fair Trade)
- Member of the steering committee of the Third Fair
Trade International Symposium (May 2009,
Montpellier, France)