de Diesbach, Louis
Business Ethics & Artifical Intelligence
Expected viva voce: April 2031
Ph.D Supervision
Currently supervising
Vansnick, Ann-Marie
From sustainable innovation to CSRD : a management perspective
Expected viva voce: August 2029
Alicia Dipierri
Behavioral changes, innovative strategies and triggering motivations towards a sustainable development in the food system
Expected viva voce: September 2025
Aspirant FNRS doctoral student
Joint supervision with Tom Dedeurwaeredere (UCL)
Léo Revelli
Environmental impact of complementary currencies
Expected viva voce: September 2028
Ecole Normale Suppérieure (Lyon) Scholarship
Joint supervision with Jérôme Blanc (Université Lyon 2)
Zoé Debroeyer
Resilience of social economy organizations
Expected viva voce: September 2027
Joint supervision with Anais Périlleux (UCLouvain)
Funded by Wallonia
Past Phd Students
Riccardo Losa
Circular Economy: The case of battery
Joint supervision with Stina Torjesen (Agder University)
Lou Plateau
Producers’ Cooperatives
FNRS FRESH fellowship
(joint supervision with Laurence Roudart, ULB)
Ariane Reyns
Complementary currencies and regional resilience
FNRS FRESH fellowship.
First position: Federal Planning Bureau
Published papers for this PhD
François-Xavier Ledru
Impact investing
Joint supervision with Oscar Bernal (Université de Namur)
First Position: Belgian Financial Services and Markets Authority (FSMA)
Published papers for this PhD
Coline Serres
For-Profit Social Enterprises and the Commons
ARC doctoral fellowship
joint supervision with Tom Dedeurwaeredere (UCL)
Current Position: Assistant Professor at KULeuven
Published papers for this PhD
Patrick Reichert
Essays on the commercialization of microfinance institutions
(jointly supervised with Ariane Szafarz, ULB, Belgium)
First position after PhD: Post-doctoral fellow at IMD (Switzerland)
Published papers for this PhD
Muluneh Dato
Corporate Governance of Microfinance Institutions
(jointly supervised with Roy Mersland, Adger University) — defended in February 2018.
Published papers for this PhD
Hélène Joachain
Complementary Currencies and Environmental Sustainability
Defended in September 2017
Current Position: Post-doctoral fellow OUE research project on complementary currencies in Brussels
Published papers for this PhD
Camille Meyer
Social Finance and Common Goods
Defended in April 2017
First position after PhD: Post-doctoral fellow at Victoria University (Canada)
Published papers for this PhD
Katarzyna Cieslik
Micro-entrepreneurs in Rural Burundi: Innovation and Contestation and the Bottom of the Pyramid
(jointly supervised with Philip Verwimp, ULB) — Defended in January 2016
First Position after PhD: Post-doctoral fellow at Wageningen University (the Netherlands)