News from the Alumni network - May 2025

  CAREER UPDATES

Juliette CAMINADE (APE 2009) is now Principal at Analysis Group, an international economics consultulting firm.

Rosalinda SOLOTAREFF (APE 2009) is Advisor to the Director of Education at École Polytechnique. 

Laurent BROCHET (APE 2017) is Head of the Geographic Methods and Standards Division at the INSEE.

Tom VERRIER (APE 2021) is Financial market infrastructures expert at the European Central Bank.

Antoine GAUDIN (APE 2024) is Macroeconomic and Financial Attaché for West Africa at the French Treasury's Regional Economic Service in Abidjan.

Live NERDRUM (EP 2018) is Senior advisor for the Norwegian Labour and Welfare Administration.

Alvaro DE MIGUEL (PPD 2015) is Director of Global Investment Oversight – Markets and Regulations for Renewables and Flex Power at ENGIE.

Juan GUIJARRO-TORTOSA (SIA 2022) is Project manager at PowerCo, a company in charge of the development and production of battery cells.

RESEARCH HIGHLIGHTS

Olivia BERTELLI  (PPD 2012/PhD 2016), Thomas CALVO, Emmanuelle LAVALLEE, Marion MERCIER (PPD 2010, PhD 2015) and Sandrine MESPLE-SOMPS published "What one thinks, what one says and what one does: Male justifications and practices of gender-based violence in Mali" in the Journal of Development Economics.

David LEITE (APE 2009/PhD 2024) published an article on "Business owners often use their firms as tax shelters, reducing government revenue and reported income inequality" for the Washington Center for Equitable Growth. 

Marie-Anne VALFORT (APE 2003) and Stéphane CARCILLO (APE 1997) just published the book Invisible Barriers: Understanding and Overcoming Discrimination in the Workplace at MIT Press.

RECOGNITION & AWARDS

Artur OBMINSKI (PPD 2020/PhD student) received in Madrid the first Standard Error Best Paper Prize for his paper on the micro-dynamics of social contact in Poland following the arrival of Ukrainian refugees in 2022. 

Antoine FEREY (APE 2016) received the Prix de thèse Carine Nourry 2025 delivered by Aix-Marseille University for his paper "Sufficient Statistics for Nonlinear Tax Systems with General Across-Income Heterogeneity" (co-authored with Benjamin LOCKWOOD and Dmitry TAUBINSKY)

ALUMNI STORIES

Mathilde GAINI (APE 2006) shares on the podcast "La Parole aux agentes" her professional background as INSEE statistician and now as Deputy Director for the Monitoring and Evaluation of Employment and Vocational Training Policies at the French Labor Ministry's Directorate for Research, Studies and Statistics (DARES).  She also discusses the place of women in the field of statistics and the challenges she has encountered as a woman over the course of her professional career. Listen her testimony here.