Florent Bédécarrats
Chercheur at IRD
Nantes, Pays de la Loire, France
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Top SchoolFlorent Bédécarrats is a researcher with 11 years of experience blending applied practice, strategic governance and academic inquiry to support development and climate adaptation in the Global South. Currently at IRD and affiliated with the Sustainability and Resilience team at UVSQ/Paris-Saclay, he develops methods to evaluate policies and territorial adaptation solutions under climate change. His background spans impact evaluation, data management and operational analytics for development finance institutions (AFD, KfW) and local government (Nantes Métropole), with hands-on work using satellite, survey and administrative data to inform project appraisal and monitoring. A PhD-trained social scientist, he has published on the governance and social-financial dimensions of microfinance and routinely translates scholarly insight into practical evaluation tools. Based in Nantes, he combines field experience in marginalized rural contexts with institutional learning and knowledge management, often bridging French and international development practice.
11 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Master 2 Coopération internationale, Science politique-économie, Master 2 Coopération internationale, Science politique-économie at Université Panthéon Sorbonne (Paris I)Diplôme de l'IEP, Science politique-économie, Diplôme de l'IEP, Science politique-économie at Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Grenoble
Spanish
Github Skills (158)
metadata10
latex9
lstm9
tesseract9
shiny-apps9
spatial9
sustainability9
r-package9
biodiversity9
data-catalog9
census-data8
markdown8
r8
gis8
use-case8
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
fBedecarrats/mapme.biodiversity
Feb 2023 - Feb 2025
Efficient analysis of spatial biodiversity datasets for global portfolios
Contributions:1 PR, 31 pushes, 10 branches in 2 years
fBedecarrats/replication_RCT_Morocco
Apr 2019 - Jun 2023
Contributions:6 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 2 months
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