Prof. SOPHIE THOYER AGRICULTURAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMIST ECONOMICS, SOCIAL AND MANAGEMENT SCIENCES DEPARTMENT MONTPELLIER SUPAGRO

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1 Prof. SOPHIE THOYER AGRICULTURAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMIST ECONOMICS, SOCIAL AND MANAGEMENT SCIENCES DEPARTMENT MONTPELLIER SUPAGRO CONTACT Supagro-SESG-Bat 26 2 place Viala Montpellier France Tel: 33 (0) thoyer@supagro.fr EMPLOYMENT June 2007-present : PROFESSOR in agricultural and environmental economics, Montpellier SupAgro (Montpellier, France) First class Professor since September 2011 HEAD OF THE ECONOMICS, SOCIAL AND MANAGEMENT SCIENCES DEPARTMENT from October 2007 to September 2015 Chair of the French association of agricultural economics (SFER) December June 2007: SENIOR LECTURER in Economics, Ecole Nationale Supérieure d'agronomie de Montpellier (ENSAM). January 2003-January 2004: VISITING ACADEMIC at the University of Western Australia (Perth, Australia) in the School of Agricultural and Resource Economics led by Prof. M. Burton October 1993 October 1998: LECTURER in Agricultural Economics, Ecole Nationale Supérieure d'agronomie de Montpellier (ENSAM) September September 1993: LECTURER in Development Economics, Department of Agricultural Economics, Imperial College at Wye, University of London.

2 EDUCATION 2005: HABILITATION A DIRIGER LES RECHERCHES- UNIVERSITY OF MONTPELLIER I. Title "Agricultural and environmental policies : pressures, negotiations and decisions" Jury: A. Kirman, D. Vermersch, 0. Godard, L. Tubiana, JM Boisson, M. Willinger 1996: PHD IN ECONOMICS -UNIVERSITY OF LONDON. Title: "The political economy of structural adjustment reforms in the context of non-democratic regimes: the case of the sugar sector in Morocco", Supervised by J. Kydd and A. Buckwell 1990: MASTER OF SCIENCES (distinction) in Agricultural Economics at WYE COLLEGE (University of London, UK) 1989: Diploma of "INGÉNIEUR AGRONOME" (equivalent to a postgraduate degree) at the INSTITUT NATIONAL AGRONOMIQUE PARIS-GRIGNON.(France) - Specialization in agricultural economics AWARDS Scholarship Walter & Zellidja awarded by Académie Française in 1990 Henry Shapper Fellowship awarded in 2003 by the University of Western Australia for a one-year position as visiting academic "Going North" award by the American Agricultural Economist Association, for the article «Assessing the Performance of Auctions for the Allocation of Conservation Contracts: Theoretical and Computational Approaches» (with A. Hailu and Steve Schilizzi) Presented at the annual Congress of AAEA, juillet 2005, Rhodes Island. Chevalier de la Légion d Honneur since 2014 FOREIGN LANGUAGES FRENCH: native language ENGLISH: fluent; working language for several years SPANISH: fluent GERMAN: working knowledge RESEARCH ACTIVITIES Member of the LAMETA research unit (Laboratoire Montpellierain d Economie Théorique et Appliquée) and coordinator of the Lameta team on Sustainable development policies and management of natural resources since 2009 ; coordinator of the Lameta team Qualitative and quantitative water management

3 MAIN PROJECT COORDINATION in the last 10 years : Coordinator of the research project Coud Pouce (Behavior and use of pesticides: Nudges) financed by the French Ministry of the Environment. The objective of this project is to associate social psychology, sociology, and economics to analyze to what extend behavioural and cognitive biases can be mobilized to reinforce the efficiency and sustainability of incentive policies for the reduction of pesticide use Present: Creation and supervision of the Cap-Eye Centre: it is a Resource and Training Cooperative platform on the Common Agricultural Policy ( The objectives are to build bridges between research, policy-making, and policy implementation in the area of European agricultural productivity and sustainability. It comes in 3 types of actions: - Improve access to up-to-date information and analysis on CAP issues - Improve knowledge on CAP of academics, students, and all stakeholders involved in innovation projects related to agriculture - Improve interactions between stakeholders involved in agricultural research and innovation projects Coordinator of a European Thematic Network on Sustainable Trade (Budget 489 k ). The objectives of this thematic network were to bring together several European research teams in social science to build-up collectively a research program on the compatibility of the European trade program at the WTO with the requirements of sustainable development objectives. Five European workshops were organized and an edited book was published with Ashgate Team leader of a two-year research programme financed by the French Ministry of Research on the biosafety procedures adopted by European countries. The objectives were to compare the sensitivity to biotechnology risks in several European countries (sanitary risk, environmental risk, economic risk) and to analyse the negotiation process at the European policy level to regulate the production and use of genetically modified organisms Co-director with Laurence Tubiana (leader of the French delegation for international negotiations on climate change and biodiversity) of a research programme financed by the French Ministry of Environment on the political economy of international environmental negotiations, applied to the analysis of the Convention on Biological Diversity Team leader for a two-year research project (Fonds France Berkeley) conducted with Berkeley University on the political acceptability of irrigation policy reforms in

4 France and California, using a multilateral bargaining model to analyze the negotiation process between interest groups. CONTRIBUTION TO SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEES AND ADMINISTRATION BOARDS - Chair of the French Association of agricultural economics (Société française d économie rurale SFER) since June Board member of the CGIAR Africa Rice Center since March 2015 Chair of program committee and member of the RICE Independent Steering Committee since Board member of Agropolis Foundation ( since Member of the scientific committee of the Foundation Tour du Valat ( since Member of the High level Expert Group on International cooperation in the European Research Area for the European Commission, Member of the scientific committee of the Water Agency Rhone-Méditerranée-Corse ( Member of the editorial board of the academic journal Water resources and economics (Elsevier) PhD / THESIS SUPERVISION - Sandra Said, Performance of agri-environnemental auctions, , University of Montpellier I - Solenn Leplay, International agreements to reduce tropical deforestation, , Montpellier Supagro - Vincent Lenouvel, Collective contracts for the conjoint use of ground water and surface water by farmers, , Montpellier Supagro - Marianne Lefebvre, Risk and water sharing: application to France and Australia (cosupervised with M. Willinger UM1), , University of Montpellier I - Estelle Midler, Economic instruments of biodiversity conservation, (co-supervised with C. Figuieres, Inra), , Montpellier Supagro - Laure Kuhfuss, Agro-environmental contract design, , University of Montpellier I - Pauline Lecole, Payments in the Common Agricultural Policy: equity and efficiency issues, , Montpellier Supagro - Moctar NDiaye, Volatility of cereal prices in Burkina Faso, , University of Montpellier

5 - Philippe Le Coënt, collective contracts for agro-environmental measures, , University of Montpellier I Supervision of more than 50 master research thesis over the last 12 years Participation to 19 PhD jurys and 10 HDR jurys MAIN PUBLICATIONS OVER THE LAST FIVE YEARS (alphabetical order of authors) Colen, L., Gomez y Paloma S., Latacz-Lohmann U., Lefebvre M., Preget R., Thoyer S., 2016, Economic experiments as a tool for agricultural policy evaluation: Insights from the European CAP, to be published in Canadian Journal of Agricultural Economics Kuhfuss L., Préget R., Thoyer S., Hanley N., Le Coent P. Désolé M., 2016, Nudge, social norms and permanence in agri-environmental schemes, Land Economics, 92(4), pp Kuhfuss L., Preget R., Thoyer S., Hanley N, 2016, Nudging farmers to sign agri-environmental contracts: the effects of a collective bonus, European Review of Agricultural Economics 43 (4), pp Lecole P., Thoyer S., 2015, Qui veut garder ses millions? la redistribution des aides dans la nouvelle PAC, Economie Rurale, No 348, pp Grolleau G., Mzoughi N., Thoyer S., 2015, Les incitations monétaires dans la politique agroenvironnementale : peut-on faire mieux avec moins? Review of Agricultural and Environmental Studies, Vol 96 no 2, pp Le Coent P., Préget R. and S. Thoyer, 2014, 'Why pay for nothing? An experiment on a conditional subsidy scheme in a threshold public good game.', Economics Bulletin, Vol. 34 No. 3 pp (HCERES B) Preget R. Thoyer S., 2014, "Does the competition structure impact the performance of multi-unit auctions?, Recherches Economiques de Louvain - Louvain Economic Review, 80(2), pp Lefebvre M, Thoyer S., Tidball M., Willinger M., 2014, Sharing rules for Common-pool resources when self-insurance is available, Environmental Modeling and Assessment, 19(2), pp Bureau JC, Thoyer S., 2014, La Politique agricole commune, Editions La Découverte, Collection Repères Kuhfuss L, Jacquet F, Preget R, Thoyer S, 2012, French territorialized agri-environmental measures for water issue: a false good idea?, Review of Agricultural and Environmental Studies, 93(4), pp Lefebvre M, Gangadharan L, Thoyer S., 2012, Do security-differentiated water rights improve the performance of water markets?, American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 94(5) pp Figuières C., Leplay S., Midler E., Thoyer S., 2012, The REDD scheme to curb deforestation: a well designed system of incentives?, Strategic Behaviour and the Environment, Vol. 2:No 3, pp Aulong S., Figuières C., Thoyer S., 2011, Agriculture production versus biodiversity protection : the impact of north-south unconditional transfers, Ecological Economics Vol 70 No8, pp