News from the Alumni network - April 2026

  CAREER UPDATES

Selma MAHFOUZ (APE 1993) is Senior inspector of finance at the General Inspectorate of Finance (IGF). 

Sven WERNER (APE 2020) is Chief of staff for Flexa.

Clémence BERSON (ETE 2007) is Head of the strategy department of the French Directorate-General for employment and vocational training.

Hinarii PICHEVIN (ETE 2010) is P&C Principal at Milliman France.

Bekzat MUKHANOVA (SIA 2021) is Project performance manager for Orano. 

RESEARCH HIGHLIGHTS

Nicolas RAGACHE (APE 2002) just published, with Julien DUBERTRET, La longue dérive de la dette française (Ed. Presses Universitaires de France) which offers an anamysis on France's recent fiscal history and the underlying dynamics that have shaped it , culminating in the current budgetary crisis. 

Antonin BERGEAUD (APE 2014/PhD 2018) published La prosperité retrouvée (Ed. Odile Jacob) on how productivity and its key drivers are essential to restoring growth and sustaining a more inclusive and environmentally sustainable model.

Simon BRIOLE (APE 2014/PhD 2019) published "From teacher quality to teaching quality: Instructional productivity and teaching practices" in the Economics of Education Review.

Olivia BERTELLI (PPD 2012/PhD 2016) just published online Gender economics in the global south (Ed. Cambridge University Press) in which she provides an overview of recent research on gender inequality in developing countries and examines the range of policy tools aimed at advancing gender equality and empowering women's economic empowerment.

Listen to Vincent PONS (APE 2006), Full professor at Havrard Business School, talk on France Culture's podcast Entendez-vous l'éco about the electoral market, individual voting behaviors and how it the impact of electoral systems on it. Only in French: here. 

Listen to Adrien BILAL (APE 2014), Assistant professor at Stanford University and laureate of this year's Best Young Economist Prize, awarded by Le Monde and Le cercle des économistes, talk about his work on the impact of climate change on economic growth, inequality and macroeconomic risks. Only in French: here.  

RECOGNITION & AWARDS

Sylvain CARRE (APE 2011), Full professor at Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, was awarded the Prize for Best Young Researcher in Finance and Insurance by Institut Louis Bachelier and SCOR. 

Clémence LENOIR (APE 2015), Macroeconomics and public policy adviser to the French President of Republic, and Simon HENOCHSBERG (APE 2017), Vice-president of Eramet's group strategy were ranked in the Choiseul 100 ranking of Next-generation economic leaders.

Shemal DOSHI (APE 2021), PhD student in Marketing, was awarded the Schumann Best Dissertation Award from the Society for Consumer Psychology for his paper "Temporal Reframing, Labeling, Social Comparison and Their Influence on Environmental Decision Making". 

Congratulations to all of them!