Faculty Profile

Julien Giorgi is a senior member of the French civil service corps of Engineers in Statistics, Economics, and Data (Insed). He is currently a Consultant at the World Bank's Africa Gender Innovation Lab (GIL) and an affiliated researcher at the RITM Laboratory (Université Paris-Saclay). His research lies at the intersection of innovation geography and development economics. In innovation studies, he investigates how regions transform their technological capabilities through recombinant novelty, with a particular emphasis on the interplay between internal dynamics and external knowledge flows in shaping patterns of technological diversification. In development economics, his work examines the individual and community-level mechanisms driving intimate partner violence, as well as the impact of couple- and community-based interventions embedded within cash transfer programs on gender norms and women’s empowerment.