Cyril Fouillet

Cyril Fouillet is a specialist in emerging economies, studying financial inclusion issues in particular. He spent three years in India, as a researcher at the French Institute of Pondicherry, where he carried out field work on the economic, spatial and political dimensions of microfinance. After a doctoral thesis defended in 2009 at the Université libre de Bruxelles, he received a two-year fellowship from the Wiener-Anspach Foundation to conduct his postdoctoral research at the University of Oxford (2009-2011).

Since 2011, Cyril has been teaching mainly macroeconomics, development economics, social and solidarity economics and research methodology at ESSCA School of Management. As PRME coordinator, he is also responsible for the Social Innovation and Management Major of ESS, in which one of the collective projects leads students to co-manage the Pays de la Loire CSR Trophies with a panel of professionals.

A committed socio-economist, Cyril has been a consultant to various organizations such as the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (rural finance group), the Foundation for World Agriculture and Rural Affairs and Financial Sector Deepening Kenya. He regularly participates in public debate through the Press (Le Monde, Radio France Internationale, Forum France, La Libre Belgique, etc.) but also at public conferences (Salon national de l’ESS au Maroc, EDHEC, etc.).

He has published various research articles, contributed to several books and reports. In his recent publications, Cyril examines the links between financial inclusion and the state-building process in India and Mexico (International Development Policy, Telecommunications Policy).