Fateh Belaïd

Full Professor of Economics, Lille Catholic University

Fateh Belaid is Fellow at KAPSARC. Before joining KAPSARC, Fateh was a full Professor of Economics at Lille Catholic University, Director of the Smart & Sustainable Cities research unit, with appointments in Ecole des Ponts & Chaussées ParisTech, and Ecole Nationale des Sciences Géographiques. Fateh has also held various positions at the French Centre Scientific and Technical Center for Building and led multiple collaborative projects for the French Ministry of Ecological Transition and the European Commission. He received a Habilitation for Supervising Doctoral Research from Orléans University, a Ph.D. in Economics, an M.S. degree in Applied Economics & Decision Theory from Littoral University, and an engineering degree in Statistics. He is an energy and environmental economist drawing from the fields of applied microeconomics, energy modeling, and econometrics. Credited with 60+ papers, he published widely on household energy consumption, energy-saving behaviors, individual preference and investment in energy efficiency, fuel poverty, as well as on renewable energy and energy policy.