Mehdi Abbas is a lecturer in Political Economy at University of Grenoble-Alpes (UGA) in France and research fellow at Pacte. He holds a Ph.D in International Economics. His teaching and researches are related to the International Political Economy, multilateral trade regulation and WTO negotiations and the stakes and problematics of international development for the least developed countries. He also develops a research agenda on the Climate-Energy-Trade nexus in the global economy. He has lectured as invited professor in several research and academic institutions in Canada, Algeria, Lebanon and Senegal. He is associated researcher within the CEIM (UQAM, Canada) and the CACID (Dakar, Sénégal) and worked as extern expert for the OIF (International Organization of Francophony).