News from the Alumni network - January 2026

  CAREER UPDATES

Kamil BEFFA (APE 1997) is CEO of CVE (Changing Visions of Energy).

Raphael SOBOTKA (APE 1997) is Head of multi-asset for Railpen.

Armand DE VIENNE (APE 1999) is Managing director for Greenhill & Co.

Arthur SOULETIE (APE 2013) is General manager at Veltys.

Auréliane LABOURDETTE (APE 2016) is Air transport advisor to the Minister of Transports.

Hugo THIMONIER (APE 2018) is Applied AI scientist for Mistral AI.

Liam COLLINS (APE 2019) is Senior analyst for The New York Times.

Dorine BUCHOT (APE 2023) is Research manager for Carbon Free Europe.

Cécile BATTISTELLO (EP 2015) is Lead DSP Partnerships for the EMEA region at Magnite.

Julien HEIMSTAEDT (EP 2022) is Senior account manager for Korn Ferry.

Aurore BIVAS (PPD 2016) is Deputy chief financial officer for AFD - Agence Française de Développement.

Taehoon LEE (PPD 2017) is Economist at the International Labor Organization.

Margaux JACOB (PPD 2020) is Deputy secretary general of the Parc National de Forêts.

Ezékiel TANO (PPD 2025) is Research assistant at Paris School of Economics.

Gaurav PREMNATH (SIA 2021) is Associate for Vitruvian Partners.

Gaelle FERRANT (PhD 2013) is Director of Philanthropy at the Fondation Sorbonne Université.

RESEARCH HIGHLIGHTS

Youssef SOUIDI (PPD 2017, PhD 2022) and Thomas VONDERSCHER just published Nouvelle cartographie électorale de la France.

Guillaume THEBAUDIN (APE 2018), Marc BOURREAU and Adrien RAIZONVILLE published "Interoperability between ad-financed platforms with endogenous multi-homing" in the Journal of Industrial Economics. 

Listen to Quentin DAVIOT (PPD 2015) talking about the purpose of school gardens in primary schools and how they are used to raise environmental awareness and help children develop a stronger connection with nature. Only in French: here. 

ALUMNI STORIES

Listen to Clémentine BOULEAU (EP 2022, PSE PhD student), Quentin CAVALAN (APE 2018, PhD 2023), Lily SAVEY (EP 2022, PSE PhD student), Olivier SAVRIMOUTOO (EP 2016, PSE PhD student); Laurence VARDAXOGLOU (EP 2017, PhD 2024), Bastien BLAIN (PhD 2017) and Sarah FLECHE (APE 2011, PhD 2015) discuss their PhD journey, their personal experience, and the broader system around it in the documentary "Ph·Doc : Derrière la thèse" directed by Jean-Michel DAGBA: here.