Régis Marodon

Régis Marodon is senior advisor on sustainable finance at Agence Française de Développement (AFD). 

A doctor of economics, he joined AFD in 1989, where he held operational positions in many African, Mediterranean and Latin American countries. He was successively director for Turkey, Mexico and Latin America. 

Since 2019, Régis Marodon has been working at AFD's Research Department and participates in numerous international networks on this topic. In particular, he works on the role of public development banks (PDBs) in achieving Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), as well as on the use of artificial intelligence to serve the SDGs.

Books

• "How much does a bee cost? Graphic novel on the economics of biodiversity and climate 2023" (in the process of publication, also available in French)
• Financing Our Common Future, also published in French, Turkish, Arabic and Chinese, Lars Müller Edition, 2020.
• Development and Public Banks, co-editor and author, Routledge, 2022.

Recent papers

• “Art in the Doing: Public Development Banks Serving Public Policies”, with J. Xu, W. Chen et J.-B. Jacouton, New Structural Development Financing Research Report No. 4 (2023)
• Les nouvelles frontières du développement, communication au 19ème congrès de l’histoire économique mondiale, Revue française d’histoire économique, vol. 1, pp. 135-142 (2023).
• “Un rôle nouveau pour les banques publiques de développement”, avec S. Griffith-Jones, J.A. Ocampo, J. Xu, SAY, N° 3(1), pp. 122-123 (2021).
• “Mapping 500+ Development Banks - Qualification Criteria, Stylized Facts, and Development Trends”, avec J. Xu et X. Ru. New Structural Development Financing Research Report No. 2 (2021).
• "Can Development Banks Step Up to the Challenge of Sustainable Development", Review of Political Economy, pp. 268-285 (2021).
• "What are public development banks and development financing institutions? Qualification criteria, stylized facts and development trends", with Jiajun Xu, China Economic Quarterly International, vol. 1, n°4, pp. 271-294 (2020).
• "Les banques de développement peuvent-elles relever le défi du développement durable ?", Working Paper n°272, FERDI (2020).

Opinion columns

• "The Age of Public Development Banks Has Arrived", with S. Griffith-Jones, J.A. Ocampo, J. Xu, The Project Syndicate (November 2020, also available in French, in Spanish and in Arabic).
• "Llegó la era de los bancos públicos de desarrollo", with S. Griffith-Jones, J.A. Ocampo, J. Xu, El Economista (November 2020).