Eulalie Saïsset

Eulalie Saïsset is a PhD Candidate in Economics at Sciences Po (Centre for Research on social InequalitieS) and CIRED, under the supervision of Lucas Chancel (PSE & Sciences Po) and Harold Levrel (AgroParisTech & CIRED). Her research is funded by the French Ministry for Ecological Transition, where she works in an operational department in charge of land use planning and biodiversity conservation policies. She has also received a grant from the Fondation Palladio to support her work.

From January 2025, she will be a visiting researcher at the Department of Geography and Environment at the London School of Economics.

Her work involves studying the equity issues in policies preventing land take in France, within the global context of addressing land degradation and biodiversity loss. Her research interests lie at the intersection between environmental justice, land economics, and biodiversity conservation. More information about her ongoing research projects can be found here.

She holds a master’s degree in engineering from Mines Paris and a master’s degree in economics from the Paris School of Economics, and has previously worked at the World Bank and the environmental consultancy I Care & Consult.

A Fair Share of Land: No Net Land Take and the Quest for Equity in Soil Conservation
Supervisors: Lucas Chancel (Sciences Po - CRIS) et Harold Levrel (CIRED)
Funding: Convention de Formation par la Recherche en Administration (COFRA), Ministère de la Transition Écologique et de la Cohésion des Territoires, Direction Générale de l'Aménagement du Logement et de la Nature

• Ecological Accounting for Net-Zero Cities : Carbon and Soil cross-case analysis, GETEC master’s program, Urban School, Sciences Po, Fall 2024.
• Data & Statistics, Masters in International Business and Sustainability, Sciences Po, Fall 2024.

• January 2025-April 2025, Department of Geography and Environment, as part of the GO LSE Sciences Po Exchange Programme, London School of Economics and Political Science.
• Lauréate de la Bourse Palladio 2024 (sous l'égide de la Fondation de France ; domines liés à l'industrie immobilière et de la construction de la ville), 10000€.

• 2024 (with Aiga Stokenberga, Tamara Kerzhner & Xavier Espinet Alegre), "Connecting through public transport: accessibility to health and education in major African cities", Area Development and Policy, Published online June 28th. Available on Tandfonline
• 2023 (with Gregor Semieniuk, Lucas Chancel, Philip B. Holden, Jean-François Mercure, Neil R. Edwards), "Potential pension fund losses should not deter high-income countries from bold climate action", Joule, vol. 7, n° 7, p. 1383-1387. Available on SciencesDirect
• 2021 (avec Caroline Mini), Ajustement carbone aux frontières. L’Europe à l’heure des choix, Les Notes de La Fabrique de l’industrie, Presse des Mines. Téléchargement du document - 
  English version: Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism: Friend or foe of European industry? [Download]
• 2021, Connectivity for Human Capital: Realizing the Right to Education and Healthcare through Improved Public Transport in African Cities, World Bank, doi 10.1596/35185. Available on World Bank eLibrary