Akiko SUWA-EISENMANN

Bio

Akiko Suwa-Eisenmann, research director at INRA, is a professor at the Ecole d'Economie de Paris. Chair of the UN Expert Group on World Food Security (HLPE-FSN). She works on development and international trade issues, as well as the distribution of wealth in 19th and 20th century France. She was deputy director of Paris Jourdan Sciences Économiques, a joint research unit within the Ecole d'Economie de Paris and directed the Applied Economics Laboratory at INRA. She has worked at the OECD Development Centre and led several trade policy diagnoses in African countries for the Enhanced Integrated Framework, a trade assistance initiative of six UN institutions. Akiko Suwa-Eisenmann is a Normalienne from Ulm-Sèvres, a graduate of Sciences Po, and holds a PhD in economics from the School of Advanced Studies in Social Sciences.