Joffrey MALEK MANSOUR - KADJAR, Ph.D.

Joffrey MALEK MANSOUR - KADJAR, Ph. D.

Commercial Engineer (Solvay Business School) – Econometrician – Economist

Peculiar Skills

Technical	Econometrics and Statistics (time-series analysis, panel data analysis, cross-section) European Economy International Trade Macroeconomics and Economic Policy Analysis Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) models
Organizational	Communication Project Management

Responsibilities

International conferences organization and management
Referee for the Brussels Economic Review
International research collaborations
Teaching at both graduate and undergraduate level

Education

2000-2006	Ph.D. in Economics: " Three Essays in International Economics ", Université Libre de Bruxelles, Supervisor: Prof. Khalid Sekkat.
1995-1997	Master (DEA) in Econometrics, Université Libre de Bruxelles , achieved with Grande Distinction. Dissertation : "Exchange rate Volatility and International Trade : a Dynamic Econometric Analysis". Supervisors : Professors Khalid Sekkat and Lucrezia Reichlin.
1995	High School Aggregate, Solvay Business School, Université Libre de Bruxelles, achieved with Grande Distinction.
1990-1995	Commercial Engineer (Master of Science in Management), Solvay Business School, UniversitŽ Libre de Bruxelles, achieved with "Distinction". Dissertation : "La Théorie du Chaos en Finance : une Evaluation Econométrique ("Chaos Theory in Finance: an Econometric Assessment"), Supervisor : Prof. Ariane Szafarz.
1984-1990	High School, Athenee Robert Catteau (Brussels), (main topics: latin and mathematics)

Work Experience

2006 – Today

Attaché at Belgian Federal Science Policy

2000 – Today

Research Fellow at EcoMod Network. EcoMod is an independent, non-profit, non-partisan international research and educational network dedicated to promoting advanced modeling techniques in policy analysis, forecasting, and policy development (mainly CGE models).

1995 – 2006

Researcher / doctoral student at Université Libre de Bruxelles (Ecares and Dulbea).
Attending to international conferences within this framework.
Research topics : Economic cycles, international macroeconomics, international trade

1995 – 2005

Teaching Assistant at Université Libre de Bruxelles

Topics:

Basic Economics (Solvay Business School, 1^st year)
Applied Statistical and Econometric Methods, (Solvay Business School, 3^rd year)
Economic Topicalities Analysis (Economic Sciences, 2^nd year)
Advanded Issues in European Economics (Seminar, Economic Sciences, 4^th year)
Applied Statistics for Social Sciences (Social Sciences and Political Sciences, 2^nd year)

Publications and Working Papers

MALEK MANSOUR, J., PLASMAN, A. and PLASMAN, R. (2006), "Objectivation des pénuries sur le marché de l'emploi", rapport réalisŽ àla demande de Mme Marie Arena, Ministre de la Formation et de Mr Jean-Claude Marcourt, Ministre de l'Economie, de l'Emploi et du Commerce ExtŽrieur.
MALEK MANSOUR, J. and SEKKAT, Kh. (2005), "Exchange Rate Fluctuations, Trade and Asymmetric Shocks in the EMU", International Finance, 8:1, 2005: pp. 119-137.
GHEERAERT, L. and MALEK MANSOUR, J. (2005), "On the Impact of Private Capital Flows on Economic Growth and Development", mimeo, Solvay Business School.
MALEK MANSOUR, J. (2003), "Do National, Business Cycles Have an International Origin", Empirical Economics, 28, pp. 223-247.
MALEK MANSOUR, J. (2003), "Trade Openness and Growth : Does Sector Specialization Matter ", written and oral communication to the conference " International Conference on Policy Modeling ", Istambul, July 3-5, 2003.
BAYAR, A. , BEN AHMED, G., DRAMAIS, F. and MALEK MANSOUR, J. (2002), "The Impact of the American New Steel Policy on the International Steel Markets È , written and oral communication to the conference Ç Policy Modeling : European and Global Issues ", ULB, Bruxelles, July 04-06, 2002.
FOUQUIN, M., SEKKAT, Kh., MALEK MANSOUR, J., MULDER, N. and NAYMAN, L. (2001), "Sector Sensitivity to Exchange Rate Fluctuations", Documents de Travail du CEPII, no 11, November 2001.
Report on the CEPR conference "New Approaches to the Study of Economic Fluctuations", Hydra, May 16-18, 1999. Published in CEPR Bulletin Archive, no 75 (summer 2000).

International Conferences (Speaker)

*Date*	*Conference Name and Organizer*	*Place*
July 3-5, 2003	"International Conference of Policy Modeling", ECOMOD	Istambul
July 4-6, 2002	"Policy Modeling: European and Global Issues", ECOMOD	Brussels
Aug. 30 - Sept. 2, 2000	EEA, 15^th Annual Congress	Bolzano
Sept. 2-4, 1999	EEA, 14^th Annual Congress	Santiago de Compostela

Complementary Education

November 2002 : Winter School on "Advanced Features in GAMS", College Station, Texas, USA.
July 2001 : Summer School on "Advanced General Equilibrium Modeling Using GAMS ", Université Libre de Bruxelles , Brussels.
July 2000 : Summer School on "Practical General Equilibrium Modeling using GAMS", Université Libre de Bruxelles , Brussels.
August 1997 : Summer School on "Modeling Real Business Cycles", UniversitŽ de Paris I (PanthŽon-Sorbonne), Paris .

Other Skills

Languages	French (mother tongue) English (fluent) Dutch (good level) Italian (notions)
Softwares	Bureautics : MS Office, L_AT_EX Database management: Access Computing: GAMS, FORTRAN, MATLAB, E-views, TSP, SPSS, Stata, Maple, Mathematica