Assoc. Prof. Thanh Ngo-Duc obtained his engineer diploma (2001), master (2002) and PhD degrees in France (2005) and then spent three years at the University of Tokyo for his Post-Doctoral research on hydro-meteorological modelling. He is currently the Co-Director of the Department of Space and Applications (DSA), and the co-director of the LOTUS International Joint Laboratory (http://lotus.usth.edu.vn) at the University of Science and Technology of Hanoi (USTH). Dr. Thanh Ngo-Duc also leads the research group of Remote Sensing and Modelling of Surface and Atmosphere (REMOSAT), which is recognized as one of the groups with good scientific publishing and international cooperation achievements in Vietnam. His research, using modeling and remote sensing tools, focuses on the topics of natural disasters and climate change, including floods and heavy rainfall mechanisms.close

Manh-Hung Nguyen is researcher at INRAE and Toulouse School of Economics. He obtained his Phd at University of Paris1. His research concerns endogenous growth theory and environmental economics. He has published scientific papers on general equilibrium, endogenous growth and natural resources, epidemics and flood risk management policies. He has been Research Fellow at NUS in Singapore, and Visiting Fellow at Cornell University. He directly participates and coordinates various research projects in Vietnam and France, especially in the fields of agriculture, infectious disease, energy and climate change. close

Nguyen Viet Cuong is a researcher and lecturer in the Institute of Public Policy and Management at the National Economics University in Hanoi, Vietnam and currently conducts research in the Mekong Development Research Institute. Dr. Cuong received his PhD in Development Economics from Wageningen University, the Netherlands. His experience includes working in the fields of impact evaluation, poverty analysis, ethnic minority, education and health issues.close

Toan Nguyen is a Research Associate at Queensland University and a researcher at the Institute of Research in Economics, Environment, and Data Science (IREEDS). His research interests are in labor economics and economics of immigration. He has published in highly ranking international journals such as - European Economic Review, Social Science and Medicine, and The World Economy.close

Étienne Espagne est économiste de l’environnement et du développement. Ses programmes de recherche portent sur les impacts socio-économiques du changement climatique et sur les stratégies d’adaptation et d’atténuation mises en œuvre dans les pays émergents et en développement, notamment en Asie du Sud-est. C’est le cas par exemple du programme GEMMES Vietnam ou du programme Facilité Inégalités dans les pays du Bas Mékong. Plus globalement, les travaux d’Étienne Espagne s’intéressent aux politiques financières visant une transition bas carbone et résiliente, qui ont suivi la signature de l’Accord de Paris. Docteur en économie de l’environnement de l’École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS), Étienne Espagne est également diplômé de l’école Mines ParisTech et de l’École d’économie de Paris. Il a publié dans diverses revues académiques, sur des sujets liés au changement climatique et aux politiques énergétiques. Il enseigne régulièrement à l’Université Paris 1, à l’EHESS, à l’École Polytechnique et à l’ENSTA Paris. Avant de rejoindre l’AFD en 2017, il a travaillé pour le Centre d’études prospectives et d’information internationale (CEPII), France Stratégie et le Centre international de recherche sur l’environnement et le développement (CIRED). close

Dr. Emmanuel Pannier, anthropologist, is a research fellow at French National Research Institute for Sustainable Development (IRD), in a Research Unit called “local heritage, environment and globalization” (IRD & National Museum of Natural History). He is also associate researcher at Center for Southeast Asian Studies (EHESS-CNRS-INALCO). Working in Vietnam since 2005, he is now hosted by the University of Social Sciences and Humanities of Hanoi. His research areas are mainly in the field of “economic anthropology” and “anthropology of development” and deal with non-commercial flows (ceremonial exchanges, gift-giving, debts, mutual aid, tontines, etc.), networks of personal relationships, social regulation regimes and social change among rural populations. He is currently working on local responses to climate and environmental change in Vietnam in the framework of the GEMMES VN project (AFD).close

He is an expert on subsidence in deltaic areas, with the specific focus on the Mekong delta in Vietnam. He received a PhD for his dissertation titled - The Sinking Mega delta - Present and future subsidence of the Vietnamese Mekong delta (2019) at Utrecht University within the Dutch-Vietnamese Rise and Fall project. During his PhD research he studied delta subsidence in the Mekong delta by integrating data and methods from various scientific disciplines, including geology, hydrogeology, geotechnical engineering and remote sensing. As Postdoc within the ‘Water, Climate and Future Deltas’ research focus area of Utrecht University he focused on developing pathways to a sustainable future for subsiding deltas impacted by climate change and high rates of relative sea level rise. As expert at the Deltares research institute he has been involved in a range of applied science projects, several located in Vietnam, translating science on sinking deltas towards policy. Currently, he is an EU Marie-Curie Research Fellow at Padova University, Italy on the MSCA-IF Project - InSPiRED - Improving Subsidence PREdictions in Delta systems - aimed to bridge the gap between geosciences and geoengineering and improving our numerical capacities to predict future relative sea-level rise in deltas. Beside doing fundamental research towards the processes and causes underlying delta subsidence, he actively focuses on impact-orientated research aiming to create awareness, achieve societal research uptake and aid delta policymakers to develop strategies to cope with ongoing land subsidence and accelerated sea-level rise. close

Dr. Kien Le’s primary research interests lie broadly in the area of economic development. He got a PhD in Economics in Louisiana State University. Since 2020, he is a researcher at the Institute of Research in Economics, Environment and Data Science. He is passionate about combating inefficiency and poverty. His research employs both structural and reduced form methodologies in a wide variety of settings. close

Dr. Chon LE-VAN received his PhD in Economics at University of Georgia, USA. Since 2015, he has served as the Department Head and lecturer at International University, Vietnam National University and researcher at the Institute of Research in Economics, Environment and Data Science. His research area is Applied Microeconomics, Applied Econometrics, and Industrial Organization. Dr. Chon is the author and co-author of two books in Econometrics and Big Data and Modelling. close

TRAN Thi Anh-Dao holds a tenure-track position in Economics at the University of Rouen Normandy (France) before being awarded by the French CNRS (National Centre for Scientific Research) for a 2-year secondment in Vietnam. She is currently Senior Economist at the Research Institute on Contemporary Southeast Asia (IRASEC-CNRS) and based in Ho Chi Minh-City. During her research fellowship at the Centre for Research in Economics Applied to Globalization (CREAM-University of Rouen), she was posted at the French Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (DIAL-IRD) in Hanoi from September 2011 to September 2013. Her main fields of interest are the development issues of globalization with a focus on comparative studies of East and Southeast Asia. She has published her research works in leading international journals like Comparative Economic Studies, Journal of Economic Integration, Journal of Development Studies or Post-Communist Economies. Her current research work deals with the environmental competition issue in the globalization era, South-South trade integration, gender issues under export-led growth, and more broadly export performance and development sustainability. She has also a longstanding experience in training programs for public officials on areas of international development, trade globalization. She has provided specialist advice and expertise, subject leadership in the fields to academic staff, policy-makers and external bodies like the European Commission.close

Arsène Rieber is Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Rouen Normandy (France). His main research interests are macrodynamics, development economics, international economics and Post-Keynesian economics. His recent works deal with the sustainability of an economic strategy based on export diversification and on export-led growth. He is also involved in the General Monetary and Multisectoral Macrodynamics for the Ecological Shift Project (GEMMES-Vietnam, AFD) under WP5.2 sub-package “Measuring the impact of climate change on Vietnam’s international trade position”. He has written for major economic journals like Cambridge Journal of Economics, Journal of Post Keynesian economics, Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, Journal of Economic Integration, Journal of Economic Development, International Economics and La Revue Economique, as well as in other national and international reviews.close

Elodie Mania is a young scholar and assistant professor at the University of Rouen Normandy (France). Her doctoral thesis is in the fields of development economics, macroeconomics and international economics. With recent publications in scientific journals like Journal of International Development or Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, her research works focus on economic issues related to trade diversification and the vulnerability of growth models in developing countries to macroeconomic instabilities and environmental issues.close

Jean Louis Brillet is a recognized international expert in econometric modelling. His experience combines theory, practice and education. He is the author of several books on modeling, using a very applied approach through the EViews software.In his numerous cooperating projects, he has devised a methodology focusing on the interaction between the expert and the local team. As a computer specialist, he has produced several original methods and tools for managing models.close

Ecole Polytechnique (1966); doctorat d'état ès sciences économiques, Université Paris I (1974); agrégation de sciences économiques (1975) Chargé de mission, Direction de la prévision, Ministère de l’économie et des finances (1970-1975) ; professeur de sciences économiques, Université de Rennes I (1976-1981); chargé de mission, Commissariat Général du Plan (1981-1983) ; directeur de l’I.R.E.S. (1985-1988); professeur, Université Paris-Nord (1983-2013); professeur émérite (depuis 2013) ; chercheur associé à la chaire Energie et prospérité (depuis 2019)
Centre d’Economie de l’Université Paris Nord CEPN – UMR CNRS 7234 ; Université Sorbonne Paris Nord
Ouvrages récents
“L’économie vietnamienne en transition - les facteurs de la réussite”, L’Harmattan, co-édité avec C. Le Van, 1998.
"When economic crises endure", M.E. Sharpe, New York, avec M. Baslé et J.F. Vidal, 1999
“L’économie vietnamienne et la crise asiatique”, L’Harmattan, co-édité avec C. Le Van, 1999.
"Les grandes économies européennes", Repères, La Découverte, 1999.
“L’économie mondiale en 2030 - ruptures et continuité”, co-édité avec P. Petit et D. Plihon, Economica, 2013
« Quand les crises reviennent », avec M. Clévenot et V. Duwicquet, Economica, 2016.
« Global imbalances and financial capitalism, Stock-Flow-Consistent modelling », Routledge, 2020 close

I hold a PhD in macroeconomics from Paris 13 and a Master degree in economic modeling from Paris 1 University. My PhD thesis studies the shifts in objectives of economic policy in France since the seventies. Currently developing empirical stock-flow models for prospective purposes and scenario analysis, I currently work at Kedge Business School as professor of finance and economics. My research focuses on the international financial system, financialization, demand regimes in Latin America, the Chinese economy, the exchange rate, monetary disparities in the euro zone, the energy transition, and other related subjects. close

Currently undertaking a Master’s degree in Public Policy and Development at the Paris School of Economics jointly founded by the top French academic institutions, HA Boi Yen receives rigorous training in analytical and quantitative economic methods with an emphasis on both policy and practice. As part of the GEMMES project, her work focuses on the impact of extreme events on Vietnam using remote sensing technology and the associated implications of climate change. She is passionate about bridging the gap between natural science and economics to contribute to well-informed policy-making on climate change adaptation close

Sepehr Eslami, MSc, with 10-years+ of experience from marine contracting to consultancy and academia, is a part time researcher/advisor at Deltares and an independent consultant. He is also a part-time PhD fellow at Utrecht University (the Netherlands), addressing fluvial and marine dynamics of deltas in the context of global climate change. With deep understanding of environmental systems, he has advised/lead a wide range of projects with different scopes (development to execution) in Europe, SE Asia and Middle East. Over the past 6 years, in the context of the Rise & Fall Project, he has recently developed an integrated framework for the Mekong mega-Delta, combining multiple 3D delta-wide numerical models. He has applied this integrated framework to develop environmental pathways for the delta, to study basin-wide water and food security. As a member of Netherlands Centre for Coastal Research (NCK) and Coastal Engineering Research Council (CERC), his interests are in connecting deep understanding of environmental systems dynamics to multi-disciplinary development of adaptation strategies.close