Emmanuelle Lavaine is an Assistant Professor at University of Montpellier 1 in France. Prior to her appointment she was a postdoctoral fellow at Lerna, Toulouse School of Economics, in France and also with the Center for Risk Analysis at the Harvard School of Public Health. She holds a Ph.D. in Economics from Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonnne University, Paris School of Economics. Her main research areas are environmental economics and health economics. She is particularly interested in environmental valuation methods. Emmanuelle's main research concerns the impact of pollution on health, social inequalities, environmental standards, and labor productivity. She has developed a keen interest in analyzing and understanding how we can draw policy implications from environmental and health economics.