Mr Julien CALAS

Biodiversity Research Officer, Agence Française de Développement

Julien CALAS is an agronomist, specializing in development economics, graduated from AgroParisTech, after university studies in biology. He worked for ten years abroad as a project manager for AFD and FFEM in Senegal, Madagascar and Cambodia, in the rural development, environment and microfinance sectors. From 2006, he joined the French Fund for the Global Environment (FFEM) in charge of projects for the conservation of marine and terrestrial biodiversity. From September 2014, he was in charge of the environmental and rural sector evaluation program of the AFD's evaluation and capitalization unit (ERS / EVA). Since January 2020, he has joined the AFD research department in charge of launching a program on biodiversity and a pro-nature economy.