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Gaëlle Balineau
Development Economist
Agence française de développement (AFD)
Private Sector & Development author
Gaëlle Balineau joined AFD in 2014 and conducts research on agri-food product trade, market regulation and the evolution of the productive structure of economies. Before that, she worked as a consultant for the World Bank on trade assistance and trade facilitation projects in Cameroon and Lesotho. Gaëlle Balineau was also president of the network of French-speaking research network on fair trade. She holds a PhD in development economics and is a graduate of the Centre d'études et de recherches sur le développement international (CERDI) at the University of Clermont-Ferrand.
Agence française de développement (AFD)
Agence française de développement (AFD) helps implement France’s development and international solidarity policy. It finances, supports and accelerates the transition to a fairer and more sustainable world through its public sector and NGO financing activities, research and publications (Editions AFD), sustainable development training (AFD Campus) and awareness-raising activities in France. Its teams are involved in more than 3,250 projects for the common good – focusing on climate, biodiversity, peace, gender equality, education and health – on the ground in French overseas departments, in 115 countries and in territories in crisis.