Solène Morvant-Roux

Solène Morvant-Roux is an Associate Professor at the University of Geneva, holding a Doctor of Economics degree. Her work bridges economics and sociology, focusing on microfinance, financial inclusion, over-indebtedness, and rural development in Latin America and North Africa. She employs mixed methods approaches to analyze financial markets' socio-economic impacts.

Research Trends: Her recent publications examine debt moralities in Switzerland, ecological dispossession in Mexico's Río Santiago region, and transnational financial behaviors in West Africa. She critiques financialization processes in social policies and explores collective resistances against microcredit systems through empirical studies in India and Morocco.

• 2023: Authored the book Sacralized Debt, analyzing Swiss debt hierarchies
• 2021: Co-authored replication study on Moroccan microcredit failures in Third World Quarterly
• 2020: Published two articles in Development and Change and Oxford Development Studies on ecological dependency and mobile money politics

Grants & Projects: Led Swiss National Science Foundation research (2016-2020) on microcredit water access in the Global South. Directed projects for the European Investment Bank, AFD, and ANR on financial inclusion during crises and rural Moroccan markets.