He graduated his PhD in economics in 2006 in IREDU (Institute for Research in Education), attached to the University of Bourgogne (France). His main research areas are economics of education and development economics. He took part to several expertises focused on development economics, like partneships with World Bank (EFA-FTI), UNESCO (Education For All Global Monitoring Report) or the French Agency for Development (Agence Française de Développement). He works at merging international student achievement tests such as PISA, PIRLS or SACMEQ. His current research area includes the relationship between education and economic growth, the quality of education and equity issues in the education system. His currents projects deal with the preparation of a new research project based on the development of an original dataset on human capital quality and an education production function analysis.