Serge Rabier

Socio-demographer at AFD, Serge Rabier initiates and coordinates research programs on population issues and gender equality-related topics.

Serge Rabier is a graduate of Sciences Po Paris and holds a PhD in demography from Sorbonne Paris Cité University. He joined Agence Française de Développement (AFD) in September 2019 as research officer in the Research Department.

After a professional career in the world of banking, consulting and educational engineering in France and Southeast Asia, he oriented his research towards the consideration and integration of gender in public policies - with a focus on sexual and reproductive rights and population policies as Executive Director of Equilibres & Populations (2001-2015). He then carried out various missions as a gender expert on population policies, in particular for the African Development Bank (2018-2019). Between 2012 and 2018, he worked as associate professor for Masters in Development at Paris Descartes and Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne universities. From 2013 to 2019, he was a member of the High Council for Equality between Women and Men, a consultative body that reports to the French Prime Minister. 

Opinion columns

• "Femmes migrantes en Afrique de l’Ouest : l’émancipation en marche ? », The Conversation France, March 2023
• "Genre et climat : décryptage de la rhétorique des acteurs du développement », The Conversation France, June 2022
• "What is the position of institutions on feminism? », Ideas4Development, April 2021
• "For a new global pact on sustainable development adapted to demographic change", Ideas4Development, February 2021
• "Population dynamics in the South: how will cities change?", Ideas4Development, February 2021
• "The “population bomb”: a barrier to sustainable development?", Ideas4Development, February 2021
• "Worldwide demographic change: new horizons for development", Ideas4Development, January 2021
• "Replacer les populations au centre de la réponse à la pandémie", The Conversation France, May 2020

Media appearance (in French)

• "L'écologie est-elle une affaire de femmes?", La Croix, March 2023