Élodie Blanc

Élodie Blanc joined Motu as a Research Fellow in 2018. Until the end of 2020, she was also a Research Scientist at the MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change. Élodie completed her graduate studies at École des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales and the University of Otago. Her research interests include agricultural economics, applied econometrics, water modeling and crop modeling.

Élodie participated in the development of the US Water Resource System model – an optimization model of US water resources allocation at the river-basin level. She participated in the Agricultural Model Intercomparison and Improvement Project (AgMIP, a forum that brings together researchers from around the world to compare agriculture, economic and climate models-) and applied econometric techniques to emulate outputs from complex bio-physical crop models. She has also based econometric analyses on large geospatial datasets to determine the effect on crop productivity of climate change, small and large dams, water availability, biodiversity, droughts, floods and typhoons.