Jérémy Vendé

Education

• 2007 – Research Master’s degree “Biology, Geology, Agroresources and Environment”, specialization in Palaeontology, Phylogeny and Palaeobiology, University of Montpellier II.
• 2010 – Specialized Master “Forest, Nature and Society”, Tropical specialization, AgroParisTech, Montpellier.

Professional experience

• 2017 – Scientific consulting assignment on lessons learned from sustainable territorial development models, WWF French Guiana, Cayenne.
• 2011–2017 – Scientific consulting assignments at AgroParisTech: work in environmental sciences; creation, management and expansion of bibliographic databases on climate change, agroecology, social and management sciences and environmental public action; development of automated methods for collecting bibliographic resources; graduate employment survey and analysis of the professional integration of alumni from programmes delivered at AgroParisTech Montpellier.
• 2011–2015 – Scientific expertise and co-supervision within the FNS-MNSI field module “Assessment of an environmental project in a Southern context”: teaching, logistical coordination, supervision and co-supervision of students, socio-anthropological interviews, development of theoretical frameworks and preparation of collective research reports.
• 2011–2013 – Expert assignment within a research project on sustainable forest management, AgroParisTech / French Development Agency: tropical forest logging, forest certification, governance and participatory management of tropical ecosystems, strategic environmental action and environmental assessment; literature review, lexicometric analyses, socio-anthropological interviews, and preparation of a scientific book in French and English.

• Head of the Specialized Master “Forest, Nature and Society – International Management” (FNS-MI).
• Head of the Executive Unit “Management, Nature and Society” (UE MNS).

Fields of interest

• Training and educational engineering.
• Strategy and negotiation for international ecosystem management.
• Critical analysis of sustainable management arrangements.
• Environmental assessment.
• Management approaches for tropical ecosystems.
• Governance of value chains affecting forests and tropical ecosystems.
• Implementation of environmental public action.

Fieldwork

Bosnia and Herzegovina, Guatemala, India, Madagascar, Morocco and Senegal.

• Teaching and co-supervision within field modules devoted to environmental assessment.
• Field supervision of students and socio-anthropological interviewing.
• Development of theoretical and methodological frameworks applied to environmental management.
• Academic and logistical coordination of training projects.