André Torre wins International Award for contributions to local and territorial development

André Torre, Research Professor and currently President of the INRAE research centre in Corsica, has been awarded the International Prize for Local and Territorial Development. This prize highlights the quality of his work on territorial development, on the mechanisms of cooperation and conflict between actors that generate innovation, and on the governance of development processes in both rural and urban areas. The Commission appreciated the ability to create a bridge between the dynamics of economic development and spatial planning, but also the ability to mobilise international scholars and researchers, especially in the years in which he was President of the European Regional Science Association – ERSA, as well as the attention to bringing the research world and the institutional one into dialogue.

André Torre: Highlights in Brief

1985:  Assistant Professor at University Nice Sophia-Antipolis
1986:  Contract researcher at CNRS (UMR LATAPSES, Sophia-Antipolis)
1994: Research Professor, INRA, UR LRDE Corte (Oct. 1994 -Sept. 1997), then UMR SAD-APT, Paris
2008 – onward: Research Professor, INRA, then INRAE, UMR SAD-APT (AgroParistech / INRAE / Université Paris-Saclay), Palaiseau
2008 – 2020: National Head of PSDR 3 & 4 Programs (Pour et Sur le Développement Régional)
2018 - 2019: Head of the Maison des Sciences de l’Homme, MSH, University Paris-Saclay
2019 - 2023: President of The European Regional Science Association
2021 - onward: President of the COFECUB: Committee for scientific relations between France and Brazil
2021 – onward: President of INRAE Centre of Corsica

Link to André Torre's full CV