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Nicolas Bau

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Nicolas Bau

Doctorant

Courriel

 

I am a Ph.D. Candidate in Political Science at the University of Geneva, where I specialize in the international political economy of foreign aid. My dissertation explores the provision and effectiveness of official finance in support of private sector development in the Global South. Other research interests include donors’ compliance with international organizations’ norms, as well as debt transparency in developing countries.

Previously, I graduated from Sciences Po Paris, where I received a M.A. in Political Science. I interned at the OECD where I worked on private sector development statistical standards and held research assistant roles at Sciences Po and the Ecole normale supérieure - PSL.

 

Fields:

  • International relations
  • Comparative politics

 

Research interests:

  • Foreign aid
  • Development finance
  • Private sector development
  • International organizations

 

Teaching:

  • Séminaire de coopération internationale

 

Publications:

  • Bau, N. (2024). “Chiapello, E., Engels, A., & Goncalves Gresse, E. (2023). Financializations of Development. Global Games and Local Experiments. Routledge”, Gouvernement et action publique, Forthcoming.
  • Bau, N., & Israël, L. (2022). Quelques éclairages sociologiques sur la composition du Conseil Constitutionnel. In Lemaire, E., & Perroud, T. Le Conseil constitutionnel à l’épreuve de la déontologie et de la transparence. Institut Francophone pour la Justice et la Démocratie, pp. 61-81.

 

Policy writing:

  • Delalande, G., Bau, N., & Gaveau, V. (2024). Stocktake on the Peer Reviews on Development Finance Statistics. OECD Working Party on Development Finance Statistics. 
  • Hos, T., Bau, N. & Gaveau, V. (2024). Report on the 2024 round of Official Development Assistance assessments of members’ vehicles extending private sector instruments. OECD Working Party on Development Finance Statistics.