Akiko SUWA-EISENMANN

Present Positions

• Lead Economist, Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRAE), France
• Professor, Paris School of Economics
• Co-director, Master Public Policy and Development (a joint master program of EHESS-ENS/ PSL-ENPC)
• Member of the executive committee of HLPE-FSN (High Level Panel of Experts) - Committee on World Food Security to the United Nation Committee on Food Security

Positions’ Held

• Deputy-director, Paris Jourdan Sciences Economiques, a joint CNRS-EHESS-ENPC-INRA research unit at the Paris School of Economics
• Director, LEA, a research unit at INRA
• Co-director of the International trade and development program at Cepremap, an outreach agency at the interface between academia and ministries
• Administrator at the OCDE Development Centre, in charge of the Euro-Med partnership agreements
• Consultant for Agence Française de Développement, the OECD Development Centre, the World Bank

Education 

• PhD in Economics, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris
• Institut d’ Etudes Politiques (Sciences Po), Paris
• Ecole Normale Supérieure Ulm-Sèvres

Last  publications

• Intergenerational wealth mobility in France, 19th and 20th century, Review of Income and wealth, 65(1):21-47, 2019 (with J.Bourdieu, L. Kesztenbaum, G.Postel-Vinay)
• Does Food Aid Disrupt Local Food Market? Evidence from Rural Ethiopia,  World Development 76: 114-131, 2015 (with N. Ferrière).
• Do Food Scares explain Supplier Concentration ? Analysis of EU Agrofood imports, European Review of Agricultural Economics, 40 (5) : 873 – 890 , 2013 (with M. Jaud and O. Cadot)
• Sanitary risk and Concentration in EU Food imports , 2012, chap 6 in O. Cadot and M. Malouche (eds), Non-tariff Measures: a Fresh Look at Trade Policy’s New Frontier, the World Bank (with M. Jaud and O. Cadot)
• Mobilité du patrimoine, Economie et Statistiques, n°417-418, juin, 173-189, 2009 (with J. Bourdieu et G. Postel-Vinay)
• Aid and Trade, Oxford Economic Policy Review, 23 : 481-507, with T. Verdier

Economic field of expertise

Development ; international trade – Income and wealth distribution