Election of the 2025 Executive Committee

The Executive Committee (14 members) is elected for a four-year term, renewable by halves, by association members up to date with their membership fees, through a list-based ballot and by simple majority.

This year, in accordance with the FAERE statutes and its Internal Regulations revised in 2024, half of the Executive Committee was renewed. The following members joined the Committee (in alphabetical order): Dorothée Brécard, Christophe Charlier, Julie Metta, and Stéphanie Monjon.

Electronic voting was held in August 2025. It was open to all members of the association who were up to date with their membership fees. These members received the necessary instructions by email the day before the vote opened.

The results were announced during the General Assembly, held at the annual conference in September 2025 in Nantes. Below is the electoral statement (translated from French):

Electoral Statement – FAERE Executive Committee Elections – 2025

FAERE, our French association of environmental and resource economists, has increasingly established itself each year as a key space for dialogue, reflection, and structuring within our scientific community. The past mandate strengthened the association’s activities, enhanced the visibility of our work, and reinforced links among researchers through high-quality scientific events (annual conference, doctoral workshop, thematic days). By standing for election, we aim to continue and deepen these dynamics, while bringing new momentum. We will pay particular attention to interdisciplinarity, international openness, and the inclusion of early-career researchers, in a spirit of continuity, attentiveness, and commitment to the association and its members.

The past years have been marked by significant progress, notably through our involvement in creating MEDAERE, the new Mediterranean Association of Environmental and Resource Economists. This initiative has been jointly developed with our colleagues from EAERE (European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists), as well as the sister associations AERNA (Spanish-Portuguese Association), IAERE (Italian Association), and other partners throughout the Mediterranean basin. Its ambition is to structure a scientific network of economists around environmental challenges specific to the region: climate stress on natural resources, biodiversity loss, demographic pressures, and resource-use conflicts. We now wish to solidify this momentum by organizing regular scientific meetings around the Mediterranean, to strengthen exchanges among researchers, institutions, and decision-makers, fostering North–South and East–West cooperation. Special attention will be given to supporting young researchers from the South, to facilitate their integration into international academic networks and increase the visibility of their work.

This focus on the next generation of researchers is part of our long-standing commitment to supporting academic renewal. Our annual meeting with PhD students continues to be highly successful, and although increasingly demanding to organize, it underscores the importance of making this event a permanent feature of FAERE’s activities.

We intend to further enhance the visibility of their work by developing more diverse, accessible, and contemporary dissemination channels. We will continue our efforts to strengthen doctoral workshops, encourage mobility, promote scientific exchanges, and support career development both within and beyond academia.

Faced with the environmental and climate emergency, FAERE has an essential role to play in the public debate. As economists, we have the responsibility to foster the transmission of knowledge, promote dialogue between science and society, and disseminate rigorous and accessible analyses. It is up to us to improve public understanding of the seriousness and complexity of environmental issues, their systemic nature, and the relevance of economic instruments in addressing them. We intend to support contributions that inform public decision-making and encourage ambitious policies for environmental protection, ecosystem restoration, greenhouse gas reduction, and sustainable adaptation of territories, populations, and economic activities to climate change.

In this spirit, our list is committed to pursuing and strengthening FAERE’s core missions: supporting research, fostering exchanges, promoting interdisciplinarity, and increasing the recognition of our field in public, political, and institutional arenas.

We hope to count on your support to continue advancing this collective effort in service of our scientific community and the ecological transition.

Our list is composed of:

● Dorothée Brécard (Full Professor, University of Toulon, LEAD – Applied Economics for Development Laboratory)
● Raja Chakir (Research Director, INRAE, PSAE – Paris Saclay Applied Economics)
● Christophe Charlier (Full Professor, Université Côte d’Azur and GREDEG CNRS)
● Anne Fournier (Associate Professor, Université Gustave Eiffel, ERUDITE)
● Serge Garcia (Research Director, INRAE, BETA – Bureau for Theoretical and Applied Economics)
● Julie Metta (Postdoctoral Researcher, USMB, IREGE & ZHAW)
● Stéphanie Monjon (Full Professor, Université Paris Dauphine–PSL, Dauphine Economics Laboratory – CGEMP)

Only one candidate list was submitted.

Candidates:

Candidacy declaration – Statement of faith

AERE, our French association of resource and environmental economists, is celebrating its 10th anniversary this year. We have many reasons to be proud of the work we’ve accomplished in such a short space of time: with around 200 members today, we can be proud of having achieved the association’s main objective, which was to bring together resource and environmental economists in France, and to encourage greater scientific exchanges, beyond those already existing in research units and various networks in France and abroad. Our association’s activities are now widely recognized, and have retained their dynamism despite the health crisis. First and foremost, our annual conferences, which bring together over a hundred participants each year, continue to be a resounding success. The 2023 conference, to be held in Montpellier, is already shaping up to be a major event, both in terms of the interest generated and the number of papers submitted and registrations received. Thematic days and doctoral workshops are also proving a great success. With our candidacy, we wish above all to encourage the originality and quality of our research, as well as the diversity of approaches and interdisciplinarity, while advocating the transparency and reproducibility of research results. We aspire to strengthen the interest of economists in the major environmental issues that preoccupy us today.

With our candidacy, we wish above all to encourage the originality and quality of our research, as well as the diversity of approaches and interdisciplinarity, while advocating the transparency and reproducibility of research results. We aspire to strengthen the interest of economists in the major environmental issues that preoccupy our society and whose importance we are constantly reminded of in the news. We encourage exchanges, discussions and collaborations between French scientists, striving to integrate laboratories in which environmental issues, while important, are not central. In addition, we are keen to strengthen our links with our foreignhomologues by working closely with the national associations that represent them, such as the Spanish-Portuguese Association of Environmental Economics (AERNA) or the Italian Association of Environmental Economics and Natural Resources (IAERE).

Finally, we attach great importance to supporting our doctoral students and young researchers in promoting their work, promoting their exchanges with other researchers and their mobility internationally, but also by helping them in their search for permanent positions in France or abroad. the foreigner. With this in mind, FAERE is committed to strengthening its role in promoting and disseminating research results and analyzes of economic policies within our community, but also among public and private decision-makers. We also aspire to boost the job market by facilitating contacts and connections. By presenting ourselves for your vote, our list wishes to join its efforts with those of other members of the Steering Committee to strengthen all the actions undertaken and increase the visibility of the economics of natural resources and the environment, as well as work and skills of our members, to civil society, the political sphere and institutions.

By putting ourselves forward for your vote, we wish to join our efforts to those of the other members of the Steering Committee in order to reinforce all the actions undertaken (specific FAERE colloquia, AFSE sessions, EAERE presence, doctoral students’ days, WP and policy papers, website which can become a pivotal tool for our action now that the technical difficulties have been solved, job market), and to increase the visibility of environmental economics and of the work of our members in civil society, in the political sphere and in institutions.