
Denis Cogneau
PSE Professor
Directeur d'études EHESS
Research Director IRD
Campus Jourdan – 48 Boulevard Jourdan 75014 Paris
5th floor, office 05
Phone +33(0)1 80 52 16 85
denis.cogneau at psemail.eu
- Political economy of development
- History of Development
- Structural Change, Inequalities and Development
Teaching

Courses and Seminars:
Master Public Policy and Development (first year M1):
Measurement of social facts - with Julien Grenet & Pauline Charousset - 24h+12h tutorial (S1)
Master Analysis and Policy in Economics (first year M1):
Introduction to Development - with Sylvie Lambert & Oliver Vanden Eynde - 18h (S2)
Master APE and PPD (second year M2): Research Seminar EHESS
Economic History of Development in the colonial and postcolonial eras - 24h (S2)
Master APE and PPD (second year M2): Core course in Advanced Economic History - 36h (S1):
Imperialism & Colonialism in the the Rise of the West and the Rest (6h) - with Facundo Alvaredo, Jérôme Bourdieu, Pierre-Cyrille Hautcoeur, Lionel Kesztenbaum, Eric Monnet, Thomas Piketty
Doctoral courses: Development - Economic History
Doctoral Students at PSE - EHESS:
- Mélanie Gittard Climate Change in Africa (4th year)
- Zhexun Mo Forced Labor and Colonial Development (3rd year)
- Sebastian Garcia Cornejo Colonial investments, land tenure and conflict (1st year)
Past Doctoral Students at EHESS:
- Justine Knebelmann (J-PAL, Boston) Taxation in Africa (2021)
- Juliette Crespin-Boucaud (IBEI, Barcelona) Ethnicity in Africa (2021)
- Yasmine Bekkouche (U. Oxford) Quality of Education in Africa (2019)
- Yannick Dupraz (UCD Dublin) Historical institutions and Development in Africa (2016)
- Léa Rouanet (World Bank) Long-term Health Evolutions in Africa (2015)
- Lara Tobin (Min. Logement & Devpt Durable) Urbanization and Land Issues in Africa (2015)
- Kenneth Houngbedji (IRD) Land Security and Distribution in Africa (2015)
- Rémi Jedwab (G. Washington Univ.) Natural Resources and Urbanization in Africa (2012)
- Phillippe Leite (World Bank) Social Programs in Brazil (2012)
- Anne Olivier (Consultant) Access to Water in Developing Cities (2010)
- Thomas Bossuroy (World Bank) Social Mobility and Ethnicity in Africa (2009)
- Elise Huillery (U. Dauphine) French Colonization in Western Africa (2008)
Past Doctoral Students at Sciences-Po:
- Laure Pasquier-Doumer (freelance) Social Mobility in Peru (2005)
- Charlotte Guénard (U. Paris-1) Inequality and Growth in Africa (2003)
- Michael Grimm (U. Passau) Economic Demography in Africa (2002)