I am a senior research officer at the Institute for New Economic Thinking, at the Oxford Martin School Programme on Technological and Economic Change, and at the Smith School for Enterprise and the Environment. I am also an associate member of Nuffield college, Oxford.

I received my PhD from UNU-MERIT / Maastricht University in 2014.

My main areas of research are in the economics of innovation, environmental economics, networks and complex systems, applied econometrics and forecasting.

Contact: francois.lafond at inet.ox.ac.uk