Laure holds a PhD in International Economics (SciencesPo, Paris) and graduated as well from the French agricultural engineering school, AgroParisTech. Her dual academic background allowed her to adopt a multidisciplinary and holistic approach to development issues.

Before joining VertigoLab in 2023, Laure worked at IFAD (United Nations International Fund for Agricultural Development) in the elaboration and implementation of rural development and natural resources management projects in different regions of the world. She has also contributed to numerous evaluation studies assessing the economic, social and environmental impacts of development programs.

During her career, she had the opportunity to collaborate with various and numerous partners, such as ministries, local authorities, producer organizations, international cooperation agencies and national and international research institutes.

Her fields of expertise include, among others, agriculture, agroecology and the evaluation of public policies.

Thomas Binet is an environmental economist (PhD from the University of Portsmouth, UK). He holds a master’s degree in fisheries sciences and graduated from French agricultural engineering school Agro ParisTech. He has worked within the OECD as a natural resources policy analyst, dealing specifically with fisheries management. He later joined the Institute for European Environmental Policy as a policy analyst. For several years, he has been involved in economic valuation of ecosystems as a researcher within the Center for Economics and Management of Aquatic resources (CEMARE) at the University of Portsmouth.

In 2011, Thomas founded Vertigo Lab (www.vertigolab.eu). He has specialized on measurement of socioeconomic and environmental impact of strategies and policies, the evaluation and design of sustainable public policy, the economic leverages to the ecological transition of businessbusiness model and innovative tools for bioinspired decision-making. Thomas has an expertise in subjects related to biodiversity financing, sustainable farming, climate change, circular economy, blue economy. He also runs the 70 ha family farm that produces figs, walnuts, grapes for winde production, cereals.

Olivier has a triple degree in management / business administration (ESCP Europe), strategy and organizational theory (University College Dublin) and telecommunications, television and telematics management (Université Paris IX -Dauphine), with a focus on innovation, first digital, then environmental. He worked in the professional Internet sector for 15 years (data analysis software platforms for economic and territorial intelligence), before returning to his studies in architecture/design (ENSAD, ENSCI-Les Ateliers) and becoming R&D Director of XTU Architects and then Managing Director of the Institut pour la Transition Energétique du bâtiment, Nobatek/Inef4. In 2020, he became Head of Strategic Development and Coop Membership at Ceebios (Centre d’Etudes et d’Expertise en Biomimétisme). He has been seconded to Vertigo Lab on a part-time basis to support the development of new socio-eco-environmental impact measurement services.

Morgan joined Vertigo Lab mid-November 2020 with experience in developing technical tools to inform public policies and other stakeholders. He received a bachelor’s degree in chemistry in 2016 from an American university in Minnesota, which he completed with a master’s degree in environmental science and policy, a double degree offered by Sciences Po Paris and University Pierre et Marie Curie. Following his internship at Centrale Nantes on innovation strategies for the deployment of marine renewable energy technologies, Morgan worked for two years at the Center for Environmental Policy at Imperial College London. There, he modelled the impact of the EU 27 + 2 (United Kingdom and Switzerland) decarbonization scenarios on world mineral reserves for the H2020 EUCalc project. He also developed an online decision making tool for advanced biofuels, which is a data dashboard that incorporates the results of the Advancefuel project on biomass availability, conversion technologies, market uptake and policy. At Vertigo Lab, he currently works on developing technical analytical tools to assess the socio-economic and environmental impacts of the blue economy in the Atlantic arc.