David Laborde
Senior Research Fellow, Head of the Globalization and Markets Research group Markets, Trade and Institution Division
Debucquet is a Senior Research Fellow and -leader of the “Globalization and Markets” research program in the Markets, Trade and Institutions Division at the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). His research focuses on the analysis of trade policies, the distributional impact of trade policy reform, the evolution of agricultural markets, bioenergy and the consequences of climate change.
He has developed several databases used in the field of international economics and a GTAP research fellow since 2005. Beyond his work on datasets he has developed several partial and general equilibrium models applied to trade policy and environmental issues, including the MIRAGE model and its extensions.
Prior to joining IFPRI, he was an Economist at the Centre d'Etudes Prospectives et d'Informations Internationales (CEPII), Paris between 2003 and 2007 and lecturer at the University of Pau (France). He has also worked as consultant for the European Commission, the Economic Commission for West Africa, the World Bank, USAID, and various UN agencies.