Valentin Guye

Valentin is an economics researcher at INRAE, the French National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food and Environment. At Trase, he works with the Supply Chain Mapping and Research teams. Valentin joined Trase in 2023 as a postdoc in UCLouvain and has updated and developed the cocoa supply chain model of Côte d'Ivoire. Before that, he did his PhD at MCC Berlin and Paris-Saclay Applied Economics. Valentin's research includes econometric analyses of the drivers of tropical land use change, such as the EUDR, the US biofuel mandate policy, cocoa supply chain sustainability initiatives, or Indonesian palm oil mill-gate prices. Valentin holds degrees in economics from Université Paris-Saclay (BSc, 2015; MSc, 2017; PhD, 2022) and in geography from Humboldt Universität zu Berlin (cotutelle PhD, 2022).