Marion Richard is a Postdoctoral Researcher at Nova School of Business and Economics and a member of NOVAFRICA. She is an ERC (European Research Council) Postdoctoral Researcher and Marie Curie Fellow studying how environmental pressures—including coastal water contamination, climate change, and conflicts—affect economic development and migration in developing countries. She holds a joint PhD in Economics from Paris School of Economics and Catholic University of Louvain. She has been a visiting researcher at UC Berkeley and has consulted for the Institute of Research for Development (IRD) and the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD).