Nicolas Clootens is an economist and Assistant Professor at Centrale Méditerranée, where he is also Responsible for the Audit/Consulting track in the third year of the engineering curriculum. He teaches courses in economics, including macroeconomics, environmental economics, economic growth, and related policy topics. His research spans environmental economics, macroeconomics and the economics of natural resources. He has authored articles on long-term relationships between growth, environmental quality, public debt and resource use, examining sustainability and policy implications using formal economic models and quantitative methods. Dr. Clootens earned his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Orléans in 2017 and is active in research networks focusing on overlapping generations models, resource economics, and public economic theory.