Ph.D Supervision

Currently supervising

Alicia Dipierri

Behavioral changes, innovative strategies and triggering motivations towards a sustainable development in the food system

Expected viva voce: May 2022

Aspirant FNRS doctoral student

Joint supervision with Tom Dedeurwaeredere (UCL)

Alicia's profile

Ariane Reyns

Complementary currencies and regional resilience

Expected viva voce: September 2024

FNRS FRESH fellowship.

Zoé Debroeyer

Resilience of social economy organizations

Expected viva voce: September 2027

Joint supervision with Anais Périlleux (UCLouvain)

Funded by Wallonia

Riccardo Losa

Circular Economy: The case of battery

Expected viva voce: May 2025

Joint supervision with Stina Torjesen (Agder University)

Past Phd Students

François-Xavier Ledru

Impact investing

UNAMUR teaching assistant

Joint supervision with Oscar Bernal (Université de Namur)

Coline Serres

For-Profit Social Enterprises and the Commons

Expected viva voce: May 2021

ARC doctoral fellowship

joint supervision with Tom Dedeurwaeredere (UCL)

Lou Plateau

Producers’ Cooperatives

Expected viva voce: March 2021

FNRS FRESH fellowship

(joint supervision with Laurence Roudart, ULB)

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

Board committees and performance in microfinance institutions: Evidence from Ethiopia

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)

Published papers for this PhD

Marion Allet

Microfinance and the Environmental Bottom Line: What relevance?

(Jointly supervised with Jean-Yves Moisseron, Université Paris 1, France)— Defended in January 2013

First position after PhD: Senior Program Officer at PAMIGA

Published papers for this PhD

Jessica Schicks

Ethics and Consumer Protection in Microfinance

Defended in January 2013

First position after PhD:
Chief Operating Officer (COO) of a microfinance institution in Zambia