About

I am an economist (Ph.D., CERDI, Université Clermont Auvergne – CNRS, IRD).

My research focuses on:

• fiscal federalism and decentralization, with a particular focus on India;
• the relationship between institutional design, ethnic conflict, and subnational autonomy;
• the impact of local public policies — including gender-responsive budgeting — on governance outcomes.
• fiscal credibility and transparency.

Alongside this core agenda, I have worked on indirect taxation, budget transparency, and the digitalization of public finance, including peer-to-peer and government-to-person payment systems. I am also increasingly interested in macroeconomic analysis and fiscal competition within monetary and economic unions.

I see the public and private sectors as complementary rather than competing forces, each indispensable to economic prosperity in its own way, and I try to approach economic policy holistically — attentive to how instruments interact rather than treating them in isolation.

Outside of economics, I follow geopolitics closely, and spend the rest of my time on football, judo, and military history.