Gael Giraud (Gaël Giraud, born 1970 in Paris) is a French economist and senior researcher at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), affiliated with the LIED laboratory at Université Paris Cité. His work focuses on climate macroeconomics, the financing of the ecological transition, public debt and the commons.
Career
- Trained as a mathematician at the École normale supérieure (Paris) and ENSAE; PhD in applied mathematics (1998, École polytechnique / Université Paris 1); habilitation (2004).
- CNRS researcher since 1999.
- Chief economist and executive director for Innovation, Research and Knowledge at the French Development Agency (AFD), 2015-2019, where he developed the GEMMES stock-flow consistent macroeconomic model.
- Member of the High-Level Commission on Carbon Prices chaired by Joseph Stiglitz and Nicholas Stern (2016-2017).
- Founder and director of the Georgetown Environmental Justice Program (2020-2023) and professor at the McCourt School of Public Policy, Georgetown University (2021-2023).
- Associate researcher at the Nantes Institute for Advanced Study (2016-2022).
- Honorary doctorate, University of Namur (2021).
Research
Gael Giraud develops non-equilibrium, stock-flow consistent macroeconomic models that integrate private debt, money, energy and climate damages. He has published 35 peer-reviewed articles, in journals including Science, Nature – Scientific Reports, Ecological Economics, Climate Policy, the Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization and the Journal of Mathematical Economics.
Selected books
- The Taste of Change, with Carlo Petrini, Georgetown University Press, 2024.
- Composer un monde en commun, Seuil, 2022.
- L’Économie à venir, with Felwine Sarr, Les Liens qui libèrent, 2021.
- Illusion financière, Les Éditions de l’Atelier, 2012 — translated into Spanish, Italian and Portuguese.
Full bibliography (in French): Bibliographie de Gael Giraud · Press: revue de presse · Videos: vidéos · Contact: contact form. Profile on RePEc / IDEAS.
