I am an economics advocate currently affiliated with the Sustainable Finance Lab and the New Economics Foundation dedicated to transforming the EU’s financial system to serve the general interest.
From Observation to Action
My journey into macroeconomics began during the 2008 financial crisis while I was still in business school. I started researching the mechanics of central bank money creation and quickly realized a fundamental truth: inequalities in opportunity are deeply rooted in how money is created and distributed. The financial system, driven almost entirely by market-driven rules, focuses on short-term profitable projects and systemically fails to serve the general interest. It leads to higher inequality, inefficient allocation of resources and deteriorates our collective well-being. In 2010, I started a blog to share my understanding on these issues and discuss possible reforms to our economic and democratic system.
Initially, I covered these issues as a journalist specializing in the Eurozone crisis and the sharing economy. But observing the failure of the political and technocratic elite to fix the financial crisis wasn’t enough; I wanted to help fix the system. At the same time, personal circumstances early in my career provided me with a comfortable financial safety net, granting me the privilege to freely choose my own path. This has made me acutely aware of how unequal our starting lines are, and directly sparked my lifelong advocacy for a universal basic income.
Building Movements
Driven by an entrepreneurial, auto-didact spirit and a deep belief in a more direct democracy system, I shifted from journalism to public affairs and advocacy. In 2012, I co-founded the French Movement for a Basic Income (MFRB), and in parallel, I roamed around Europe for 18 months to promote a European Citizens’ Initiative for basic income. With very limited results, we gathered 285,000 signatures.
In 2015, I joined the UK-based NGO Positive Money, to coordinate the “quantitative easing for the people” campaign. A few months later, I moved to Brussels to found and manage Positive Money Europe. Over eight years as its Executive Director, I grew the organization into a leading voice in the European debate. Our advocacy yielded concrete, historic results: we secured direct engagement with ECB President Christine Lagarde and with a broad coalition of civil society organisations and grassroot groups across the EU, our campaign successfully led the ECB to integrate climate change into its monetary policy instruments.
Today, my work is focused on providing timely, policy-oriented research and strategic advice for policymakers—including the European Parliament’s ECON committee, the ECB, and the European Commission—while actively engaging with journalists to shape the public debate and help the public engage with economic and financial policy.
I focus on the intersection of monetary policy, financial regulation, macroeconomic governance, banking, and fiscal policy. My objective is to enhance the effectiveness of these policies and institutions so they can collectively achieve shared societal goals, such as fostering the green industrial transition, securing energy autonomy, and ensuring a fair transition.
To advance these goals I work as an Associate researcher at the Sustainable Finance Lab (Utrecht University), where my research focuses on the green energy transition, monetary policy, and the financing of European public goods. Concurrently, as an Associate Fellow at the New Economics Foundation (NEF), I work on monetary-fiscal coordination, industrial policy and housing.
I also undertake regular freelance collaborations with established NGOs and think tanks, including the WWF, Council on Economic Policies, and Transport & Environment (T&E).
Outside of work
I am fiercely pro-European and politically engaged, though I remain independent and non-partisan. When I am not deciphering the latest ECB working paper, you will likely find me doing geeky open-source stuff, play badminton or listening to music. I am a passionate mélomane for everything from classical, indie rock, french pop and electro.