Affiliate Professor

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Patrick Plane is an Affiliate Professor at Mohammed VI Polytechnic University.

After gaining a PhD in economics from the University of Auvergne, in 1983, he joined the French National Center of Scientific Research (CNRS) where he is presently research Director. He is also associate professor of the University Clermont Auvergne where he teaches different courses in relation with development economics.

Patrick Plane conducts his research at the Centre for Studies and Research on International Development (CERDI), a joint CNRS-University of Clermont Auvergne research unit.
He has been head of CERDI from 2001 to 2013, member of the Committee for Development Policy (CDP) of the United Nations from 2010 to 2016, coordinator of an international scientific research network of the CNRS in relation with the International Development Economics (IDE) from 2014 to 2018. He is presently member of the European Development Research Network (EUDN), co-editor of the Revue d’économie du développement, and resource person for African Economic Research Consortium. His research relates to both micro and macroeconomic issues, and mainly apply to sub-Saharan Africa and Middle East and North African Countries (MENA). It is in the perspective to have a permanent assessment of the competitiveness of African economies that Patrick Plane conceptualized and manages the Observatory of Sustainable Competitiveness on behalf of the Foundation for Studies and Research on International Development (FERDI). His main publications are in the field of industrial economics, Public-Private Partnerships, and the diagnosis of competitiveness at firm and national levels.

Patrick Plane is the author of several books and papers in high-level academic journals such as World Development, Journal of Comparative economics, Journal of Development Studies, Journal of Macroeconomics, Applied Economics, Economic Modelling, Journal of African economies.
 

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