Sandrine Mesplé-Somps is a research director at the Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD) and a member of the UMR Université Paris-Dauphine CNRS (8007) IRD (260) LEDa (Laboratoire d'Economie de Dauphine), DIAL team (Development, Institutions, Globalisation). His research falls within the fields of development economics and economic history and is mainly applied to the African continent. It focuses on fiscal and budgetary policies during the colonial and post-colonial periods, on inequality and poverty, and on the effects of migration in the countries of origin. Her most recent work focuses on aspirations to migrate and the measurement of views and behaviours of gender violence and conflict. Since 2019, she has been co-directing the master 2 ADEPP "Aide à la décision et Evaluation des Politiques Publiques" co-diploma at Université Paris Dauphine and ENSAE Dakar. She is also an affiliated researcher at CEPREMAP (France), ICMigrations (France), the François-Simiand economic and social history centre and the Global Labor Organization.