Tara L’Horty to take part in the 8th Lindau Nobel Meeting in Economic Sciences

BETA is pleased to announce that Tara L’Horty has been selected to participate in the 8th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting on Economic Sciences, which will take place in Lindau, Germany, from August 26 to 30, 2025.

This prestigious, internationally renowned event brings together Nobel Laureates in Economic Sciences—recipients of the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel—and more than 300 outstanding young economists from over 60 countries. Selected through a competitive, multi-stage process, these young researchers will have the unique opportunity to engage in intergenerational dialogue with around twenty Nobel Laureates, as well as influential figures from the political, economic, and industrial spheres, such as Mario Draghi. Together, they will explore and debate today’s most pressing economic challenges.

Tara L’Horty is a second-year PhD candidate in economics at the Bureau of Theoretical and Applied Economics (BETA), affiliated with the Climate Economics Chair and the French National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food and Environment (INRAE). She is jointly supervised by Philippe Delacote (Research Director, INRAE) and Anna Creti (Professor, Université Paris Dauphine–PSL). With a background in agricultural engineering, her research explores the effectiveness and design of market-based instruments for financing nature-based and land-use projects. Her PhD focuses specifically on the functioning and dynamics of Voluntary Carbon Markets, with an emphasis on how regulatory frameworks, information asymmetries, and buyer behavior shape market outcomes and environmental integrity.

Her doctoral thesis focuses on the economics of carbon offsetting, investigating failures in the voluntary carbon market and proposing policy solutions to improve its functioning.

Since the beginning of her PhD, Tara has published in Nature Sustainability and presented her work at several international conferences. She recently completed a research stay at the London School of Economics and Political Science and benefits from the guidance of internationally recognized scholars. Her commitment also extends beyond academia: she has worked on public policy at the French Ministry of Agriculture and the French Embassy in Nigeria, and led a civic agroecology project in Benin, combining science and art to raise awareness. Fully bilingual, she also co-organizes the weekly seminars of the Climate Economics Chair. These achievements, along with a compelling application pre-selected by the University of Lorraine and supported by the Udice network, led to her selection for the Lindau Meeting.