NGOULMA TANG Patrick Jeannot Date of Birth 13/09/1989

Gender : Male Nationality : Cameroonian

Address : 8, Rue Boirot Phone : +33 6 49 57 63 87
63000 Clermont Ferrand (France) Email : j.ngoulma@gmail.com

1 FIELDS OF INTEREST
Microeconomics, Macroeconomics, Markets & Value Chains, Agriculture, Agribusiness, Food Policy,
Property Right, Label Effects, Geographical Indications, Consumers Safety, Industrial Economics, Infor-
mation Economics, International Development, Development Economics, Poverty reduction, Research,
Applied Econometrics, Statistics, Impact Evaluation, Micro-econometrics, Macro-econometrics, Meta-
Analysis, Qualitative variables Methods, Applied Econometrics.

2 EDUCATION
Oct. 2014-Dec. 2017 PhD (Doctor) in Economics
Clermont School of Economics, University of Clermont Auvergne (France).

Dissertation : Signal and imperfect information : what effectiveness for the geographical
indications ? An application to Auvergne PDO cheeses.

2012-2014 : Master (5th year) Economic Analysis and International Development

Specialty : Development Economics, CERDI - Clermont School of Economics, University of Auvergne
(France). With Honors.

2011-2012 : Bachelor’s Degree in Economics of Development, CERDI-Clermont School of Economics,

University of Auvergne (France). With Honors.

2009-2010 : Master (4th year) in Mathematics Economics, statistics and econometrics, University of
Yaounde II (Cameroon). With Honors.

2006-2009 : Bachelor’s Degree in International Economics, University of Yaounde II (Cameroon). With

Honors.

3 PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Oct.2014-Sept.2017 (3 years) : Research Scientist, French National Research Institute of Science and
Technology for Environment and Agriculture (IRSTEA-France). Territories Unit (AgroParisTech, Inra,
Irstea, VetAgro Sup, University of Clermont Auvergne)

Main tasks : Build questionnaires, Make surveys, Evaluate the Willingness to Pay of Consumers for
Dairy Products, Present the results in the meetings, Meet the professionals of Dairy Sector, Supervise
engineers of studies and research assistants .

Oct. 2015 - Sept. 2016 (12 months) : Economist Consultant, Food and Agriculture Organization of
the United Nations (FAO) - TCI (Investment Centre Division) / AGS (Agribusiness Division).

My job consisted to analyze the economic impacts and the resilience to shocks of Geographical
Indications (GIs) based on 10 case studies in different part of the world : Japan (liquor Awamori), India
(Darjeeling tea), Cameroon (Pepper of Penja), Morocco (Safron of Taliouine), Brazil (Wine of Valde
dos), Colombia (Café de Colombia), USA (Kona coffee), Spain (cheese manchego), Switzerland (Cheese
Tête de moine), Serbia (Futog cabbage).

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Apr. 2014-jun. 2014 (3 months)
- Research Assistant : Laboratory of Applied Statistics for Analysis and Research in Economics
(LASAARE), Casablanca (Morocco). Project «Microfinance in crisis», ». Funding : European Investment
Bank (EIB)/ EIBURS program. http ://www.microfinance-in-crisis.org/.
Topic : Analyze of repayment Performance of microcredit in Morocco : case of an micro finance
institution.

Apr.-jul. 2013 (4 months)

- Research Assistant : Haut-Commissariat au Plan (HCP), Rabat (Morocco)
topic : Analysis of survey data on living standards and consumption of Moroccan households.

Jul.-Aug. 2006 (2 months)

- Intern : Central Bank of Central Africa State (BEAC), National Direction of Yaounde, (Cameroon).
Participation activities of the Central Bank.

4 CONFERENCES
[1] Consumer’s choices and a willingness to pay for Auvergne cheeses under PDO label. An empirical
analysis. 15th Congress of European Association of Agricultural Economists (EAAE). Parma (Italy),
August 29th – September 1st 2017.

[2] Consumer’s choices and a willingness to pay for Auvergne cheeses under PDO label. An empirical
analysis. Symposium on the Competitiveness, agriculture and food organized by the French society of
rural economy (SFER). Reims (France), 22-23 June 2017.

[3] Prices determinants and prices dispersion : An estimation of a multiplicative heteroscedasticity model
on the Auvergne PDO cheeses. Doctorales organized by the Regional Science Association of French
Language (ASRDLF). Clermont-Ferrand (France), 15-17 March 2017.

[4] Signs of qualities and effect of reputation on the markets : a conceptual approach. 53th conference of
the Regional Science Association of French Language (ASRDLF), Gatineau (Quebec), 7–9 July 2016.

[5] Consumer’s choices and a willingness to pay for Auvergne cheeses under PDO label. An empirical
analysis. 154th Seminar of European Association of Agricultural Economists (EAAE), Beauvais (France),
June 30–July 1, 2016.

[6] Consumers’ willingness to pay for dairy products : what the studies say ? A Meta-Analysis.
Symposium on Dairy Markets Liberalization, organized by the French society of rural economy (SFER).
VetAgro Sup, Agronomic Campus of Clermont (France), 9-10 June 2016.

[7] Effectiveness of labels and certifications strategies : fine empirical study of the determinants of
willingness to pay and its potential evolution for Auvergne market PDO (Protected Designated Origin)
cheeses. Doctorales organized by the Regional Science Association of French Language (ASRDLF).
Clermont-Ferrand (France), 17-19 February 2016.

[8] Consumers’ willingness to pay for dairy products : what the studies say ? A Meta-Analysis. 9th
INRA-SFER-CIRAD congress, Nancy (France), 10-11 December 2015.

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5 ACADEMIC RESEARCH
Working Papers :

2017 Prices determinants and prices dispersion : An estimation of a multiplicative heteroscedasticity

model on the Auvergne PDO cheeses.

2017 Insights of French market cheeses : A qualitative analysis.

2016 Consumer’s choices and a willingness to pay for Auvergne cheeses under PDO label. An empirical
analysis.

2016 Does a Geographical Indication help farmers ? Evidence on the “Pepper of Penja” from Cameroon.

2016 Can Geographical Indications make a difference ? An estimation of Synthetic Control Method on
the “Cafe de Colombia”.

2015 Signs of qualities and effect of reputation on the markets : a conceptual approach.

2015 Consumers’ willingness to pay for dairy products : what the studies say ? A Meta-Analysis.

2014 Financial Depth and Political Budget Cycles in developing countries. (Master dissertation)

In Progress :

- The road towards the Geographical Indication : Evidence on the “Liquor Ryukyu Awamori” from japan

- What role plays the reputation of "Kona coffee" from Hawaï on the income of producers ?

6 AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS

2014-2017 : PhD Fellowship of Auvergne Region from France.

2011 : Winner of the Prize “Best Student in Master (4th year) in Quantitative Economics”, University of
Yaounde II (Cameroon).

2010 : Winner of the Prize “Best Student in Bachelor of Economics and Management”, University of
Yaounde II (Cameroon).

7 LANGUAGES
French (native), English (working language)

8 INTERESTS
Football, Basketball, Internet, Trip, Reading, Cinema

9 COMPUTER SKILLS
STATA, Eviews, Excel, R, Mathtype, Gams, Tanagra, LateX

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10 REFERENCES
- Jean Marc Callois, Director of territories department to IRSTEA (France). Supervisor.
Email : jean-marc.callois@irstea.fr, Phone. +33 1 40 96 60 34

- Philippe Jeanneaux, Professor of rural economic, VetAgro Sup, agronomic campus from
Clermont-Ferrand (France). Supervisor.
Email : philippe.jeanneaux@vetagro-sup.fr, Phone. +33 4 73 98 70 30

- Prof. Fouzi Mourji, Director of LASAARE (Laboratory of Applied Statistics at the Analysis and the
Research in Economics) from Casablanca (Morocco).
Email : fouzim@hotmail.fr

- Prof. Jean-Louis Combes , Dean of the Clermont School of Economics, CERDI, University of
Auvergne (France).
Email : j-louis.combes@uca.fr

- Florence Tartanac, Division Chief and Senior Agricultural Economist. Food and Agriculture
Organization of the United Nations (FAO), Rome (Italy).
Email : Florence.Tartanac@fao.org

- Sylvette Monier-Dilhan, Senior Researcher. French National Institute for Agricultural Research
(INRA), Toulouse (France).
Email : sylvette.monier@inra.fr

11 OTHERS
Since 2015 : Member of the French Society of Rural Economy (SFER).

Since 2016 : Member of the European Association of Agricultural Economists (EAAE).

Since 2011 : Member of the CERDI association Africavenir.

Since 2016 : Member of the Regional Science of French Language (ASRDLF).

2015-2017 : Member of the research committee of Territories unit from IRSTEA (France).