Welcome to my personal webpage,

I am an Assistant Professor at the University of Lille and a member of the LEM (UMR CNRS 9221) research laboratory. Prior to this, I was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Naturalis Biodiversity Center within the Biodiversity Under Global Stress research unit; a Guest Researcher at the Institute for Environmental Studies at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam; and an Associate Researcher in the Department of Economics at the University of Orléans.

My research lies at the intersection of econometrics, environmental and natural resource economics, and finance. I study how economic activity and resource extraction both drive and are affected by global environmental change, such as climate change and biodiversity loss, how these interactions give rise to economic and financial risks, and how public policies can best help address these challenges. To do so, I draw on quantitative methods such as causal inference, predictive modelling, and large-scale geospatial analysis.

If you are interested in these topics, feel free to contact me at: wassim.le-lann[at]univ-lille.fr