Rose Robert is a Research Assistant at ISDC – International Security and Development Center. She holds a Master’s degree in Economics from the Paris School of Economics and studied Economics at ENS Paris-Saclay. Her research interests lie at the intersection of political economy, development economics, political behavior, and environmental issues.
Her previous research has focused on Latin America. In Peru, she studied the relationship between informal gold mining, deforestation, and violence using geospatial data. More recently, her research on wildfires in Chile examined how voters respond to environmental shocks, with a focus on retrospective voting and rally-around-the-leader dynamics.
At ISDC, her research focuses on polycrises involving conflict and climate-related shocks and their consequences for population well-being, with a focus on Africa and cross-country comparisons.
