Thibault Lemaire, Master II student in 2018-19

During my Master 1 in Development Economics, I visited the Faculty of Economics and Political Sciences at Cairo University as an exchange student during one semester.

This seven-months stay in Egypt was a unique opportunity to confront my theoretical knowledges to the reality of a developing economy still adjusting from a sharp devaluation and confronted to high inflation. I could learn a lot about the Egyptian economic system while redacting my thesis for the Master 1, as I decided to develop a macroeconometric model to analyse Egypt’s monetary policy.

After completing the semester, I joined the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development for three months as an Intern and performed several analyses of recent reforms in Egypt and Morocco, on Tunisian State-owned enterprises and on Jordanian labour market and recent macroeconomic developments. I also worked as a Research Assistant, which allowed me to learn more about Western African economies, to develop useful skills for the Master II thesis and to gain a first professional experience in research.

Christophe Misner graduated in 2012.

Christophe Misner is a Research Associate at J-PAL Europe where he currently works with J-PAL affiliated professor Vincent Pons and Clémence Tricaud on a randomized evaluation which aims to determine the impact of a program called Voisin Malin near Paris. This program provides support to excluded and isolated people in Paris’ suburbs.

 After his master degree at Paris 1 Pantheon Sorbonne, Christophe pursued with an internship at IPA Morocco helping to implement an endline study targeting agricultural cooperatives and small enterprises and was in charge of the recruitment, training, and management of a surveyor team.

 Then in Bolivia, he conducted and supervised data collection for a baseline study targeting rural households. Recently, he worked on field work with J-PAL Europe and organized the data collection for a randomized evaluation studying the impact of Formscience, a training program for primary school teachers.

Nesma Magdi holds a Phd in the field of labor market. She graduated in 2012.

"After my Masters’ degree in Development Economics at Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University, I had the opportunity to work as an economic consultant and project coordinator with Davis University of California in the framework of a socio-economic project aiming the prevention of the malnutrition of children in Africa.

Through this project, I had the opportunity to spend 6 months in Burkina Faso to supervise the establishment of a randomized experiment that assesses the willingness to pay of households toward a nutritional supplement. Therefore, I had the chance to participate into a complete filed experiment that provided me a strong experience in conducting fieldwork’s projects and implementing socio-economic studies.

It also allowed me to live and explore the culture of another developing country (beside Egypt, my home country), which improved my ability to deal in multicultural environments." 

Kelly Pierre graduated in 2017.

"During my Master of Economics of Sustainable Development at Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University, I had the opportunity to do my internship at Initiative Clause Sociale (ICS) as a junior coordinator assistant. Initiative Clause Sociale is a CSR working group that gathers 37 French retailers and mutualizes social and environmental audits.

During this internship, I have elaborated a social handbook for factories, managed the database and all the operational tasks related to the audits, created the model of ICS website, prepared the weekly newsletter on CSR, human rights, migrant workers.

Thanks to this internship I had interacted with different stakeholders like audit firms, the International Trade Center."

Ts’olo Sidwell Lehata, BA, MSc, MRes

Graduated in 2017

Upon completion of my Master II in Development Economics at Paris 1 Pantheon Sorbonne, I joined the Central Bank of Lesotho where I currently work as an Economist, in the Research department, Modeling and Forecasting Division. 

My work involves continuously enhancing the bank’s forecasting framework and developing models for different macroeconomic indicators for forecasting purposes. I produce and publish reports on macroeconomic outlook and research articles on topical issues. The position also gives me the opportunity to represent the central bank in the Macroeconomic Technical Working Group made up of technical specialists from the main policy bodies to render policy advice to the government.

Both the PSME and M2 Development Economics from Paris 1 have come in handy in my career. The immense support from the Alumni association activities including the career fairs during my time at Paris 1 undoubtedly made the transition into the work place seamless.

Constantin Berthault graduated in 2017.

Simon Delage graduated in 2015. 

He is economist at Instituts d'émission d'outre mer (IEDOM), part of the AFD group.

After my M2 graduation, i was given the opportunity to work as an intern at the French embassy (economic service) for 4 months.

This experience was definitely very important for me, besides the fact that i discovered a new country and a new culture, I understood what kind of job we can do after our M2. I was in charge of the redaction of 2 notes, one about the manufacturing sector in Indonesia (4 pages) and an another one, longer, about the Sino Indonesian diaspora and its impact on the economic world, it was a little bit like a mémoire, but with very few data available.

First of all my master degree allowed me to get the internship, the "research" side was convincing since my main task was to read, look at the data, understand a new topic in order to write a study at the end, very similar to what we did when we had to write our memoire. One more thing I would like to tell about this master is that it gave me the opportunity to move abroad, to meet new people and to adapt easily in each context.

Malgorzata Nedjam graduated in 2012.

After my graduation, I did different internships, all in public institutions. First, I worked in the French Chamber of Commerce in the Africa and Middle East Department, which is in charge of bilateral cooperation between Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs). This first work experience was very valuable as I discovered how French firms are looking to get established in developing countries, especially in Africa. I had also the opportunity to make a presentation on the economic challenges and perspectives in Sub-Saharan Africa.

Then, I was given the opportunity to work on Multilateral development Banks at the French Treasury of the Ministry of Finance. This provided me the opportunity to demonstrate my ability to process a large volume of data and information. Finally, I was recruited as deputy head of the Foreign Aid Office in the directorate-general of the Treasury, in charge of the French development strategy. During three years, I was dealing with various subjects such as public governance, domestic revenue mobilization in developing countries, and demographic transition in Sub-Saharan Africa. I had also the opportunity to represent France in the OECD Development Assistance Committee and different working groups.

Morgan Hull-Brousmiche

Originally from New York, Morgan came to the Sorbonne School of Economics in 2007 as a graduate student where she studied in the Panthéon Sorbonne Master in Economics program and then specialized in the field of International Economics and Development where her focus was education and development.

She has been working to manage the PSME program since 2009. Morgan is the President and founder of the PSME Alumni Association and is also one of the founding members of  Sorbonne Economists, an association which regroups the 40 000 graduates from the Sorbonne School of Economics since its establishment in 1971.

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/morganhull/

Antoine Marsaudon graduated in 2015.

Antoine Marsaudon is a PhD student at both Paris 1 University and Paris School of Economics currently working on behavioral health economics. He is also a permanent member of the Hospinnomics Chair and of the Behavioral Experiments in Health Network.

Antoine works more specifically on the impact of health shocks on non-cognitive skills and risky behaviors. He also work on the Screening for Breast-Cancer project, founded by the French Institute for Public Health Research, which aimed to understand the behavioral factors that influence screening decision.

Après un master en économie internationale et développement à l'Université Paris 1 et un diplôme des Grands Etablissements à l'Université Paris-Dauphine, Antoine a travaillé au Secrétariat Général du Ministère de l'économie et des finances. Actuellement doctorant en économie de la santé à Paris 1 - PSE, il est membre permanent de la Chaire de recherche Hospinnomics et du Behavioral Experiments in Health Network.

Sa thèse mobilise les outils et les concepts de l'économie comportementale afin de mieux comprendre l’impact de différents chocs de santé sur les capacités non-cognitives et les comportements à risque. Il participe également au projet « Screening for breast cancer », financé par l’IReSP, qui vise à mieux comprendre les facteurs comportementaux influençant le diagnostic, le traitement et l’observance du cancer du sein. 

Valentina Salazar-Aristizabal graduated in 2018

After my masters degree in sustainable development economics at Paris 1, I had the opportunity to do my internship at the Ministry of Ecology in Paris.

It was an incredible and enriching experience. I was responsible for a mission on indoor air quality within the economic evaluation service.

During the internship I focused on evaluating the impact of a recent policy that had been established by the government seeking to reduce indoor air pollution. It was a very interesting subject on which I had no knowledge before, so it was a bit challenging at first. The policy consisted on product labelling of constructing materials that could be susceptible of emitting indoor air pollutants. And my task was to evaluate the efficiency of this policy. I worked along with my supervisor on constructing a policy tool that would guide policy-makers in the evaluation of an information-based policy instrument.

The final deliverable of the internship was the production of a report on this subject which will be published in the collection of documents of the ministry and will be available to the public.