Speakers

After completing her doctorate in 1992 at the University of Toulouse I, and postdoctoral studies at the University of Berkeley in California, Emmanuelle Auriol joined the Toulouse School of Economics as a lecturer in 1993. In 1996, she passed the national competitive examination for university aggregation. She then became a professor at the University of Aix-Marseille II. She remained there until 1998, when she was recruited as a professor at the Toulouse School of Economics. Her work, which combines theoretical and empirical approaches, focuses on public economics, industrial economics and development economics. She focuses on market imperfections, whether they originate from the search for rents by actors enjoying market power, or from cognitive biases such as retrograde religious beliefs, discrimination, particularly against women, or negative intrinsic motivations. This work combines the contributions of neoclassical economics with those of behavioral economics. During her career, Emmanuelle Auriol has received numerous distinctions and awards for her work, which has been published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), American Economic Review, Quarterly Journal of Economics, and Journal of the European Economic Association, among others. She is a CNRS bronze medalist (2003), a member of the Institut Universitaire de France (junior class 2003, senior class 2016) and the Conseil d’Analyse Economique, a fellow of the European Economic Association (EEA), the CEPR, the European Union Development Network (EUDN), and CESifo. She is an editor for various scientific journals and regularly collaborates on research or training contracts with the French Development Agency and the World Bank. Finally, she does not neglect the work of dissemination by participating in conferences, television and radio shows, and by writing regularly in newspapers. She is thus a member of the Cercle des Economistes and the author of two award-winning books "Pour en finir avec les mafias -- sexe, drogue et clandestins : et si on juridiqueisait?" published by Armand Colin as well as "Regulating Public Services: Bridging the Gap between Theory and Practice" with Antonio Estache and Claude Crampes at Cambridge University Press.

A graduate of ESSEC, Françoise Carle is Deputy Director General in charge of development at the Val d’Oise Departmental Council, after having held positions as an associate consultant and general management in various public contexts.

Born on April 12, 1976 in France, Mr. Didier holds degrees in political science, law and business. He graduated from Sciences Po Paris, ESSEC and obtained a postgraduate degree from the University of Paris II Panthéon-Assas. He then spent 4 years in the United States where he obtained a Master of Laws from Columbia University in New York and a scholarship to Harvard University. Mr. Didier is a member of the Paris and New York bars. He worked from 2002 to 2004 as a partner in the New York office of the law firm Skadden. Geoffroy Didier began his political career in France in 2005, collaborating in various ministerial offices until 2012. In 2010, he was elected councilor of the Paris region. In December 2015, he became Vice-President of the Île-de-France region, responsible for housing and urban planning. He was also appointed National Secretary in charge of housing by the Les Républicains party. A year later, he was also elected President of the EPFIF, the public institution of the Île-de-France region, to lead the investment of 2 billion euros over the next 5 years. In 2017, he expanded his role and became Vice-President of the Île-de-France region in charge of attractiveness, housing and urban planning. He is also the current Secretary General of the Les Républicains party.

Between December 2017 and July 2024, he was a Member of the European Parliament in the European People's Party group (EPP group)

In September 2024, Geoffroy Didier was elected Deputy President of the Île-de-France region52. He is the first in the regional executive of Valérie Pécresse, above the vice-presidents, with a general competence and thus becomes the number 2 of the region53. He was, moreover, appointed spokesperson of the region.

Giordano Mion is Professor of Economics at ESSEC Business School, France. Before joining ESSEC Business School in 2022, Giordano Mion was a Professor at the University of Sussex (2015-2022) and the University of Surrey (2013-2015), a Lecturer at the London School of Economics (2009-2013), and a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Université Catholique de Louvain in Belgium (2005-2008) from where he obtained a PhD in Economics in 2004. He has also been a Visiting Researcher at the Paris School of Economics, the University of Toronto, and the University of Bologna. His previous research awards include the Highly Cited Authors Award from the Journal of Urban Economics and the Mundell Prize from the Canadian Journal of Economics. He is currently a member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Economic Geography as well as Regional Science and Urban Economics. Giordano Mion is also a Research Fellow at the Centre for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) and the Productivity Institute (TPI). He is also an Associate Fellow at the Centre for Economic Performance (CEP) at the London School of Economics, the Centre for Economic Studies and the Ifo Institute (CESifo), the National Institute of Economic and Social Research (NIESR) and the Centre for Research on Globalisation and Economic Policy (GEP) at the University of Nottingham. His research and teaching focus on international trade, urban economics and applied econometrics. He has published in international peer-reviewed journals including the Quarterly Journal of Economics, the Journal of Political Economy, the Journal of International Economics, the Journal of Urban Economics, the Economic Journal, the International Economic Review and the Review of Economics and Statistics. He has also conducted a number of studies and consultancies for the UK Trade and Investment Agency, the UK Department for Transport, the UK Business and Investment Agency and the European Central Bank.

Estefania Santacreu-Vasut holds a PhD in Economics from UC Berkeley. She is a professor of economics at ESSEC Business School and at the THEMA research center (CNRS) and associate dean of pedagogy. Her research studies gender and the role of institutions and has been published in the Journal of Development Economics, Review of Economics of the Household, Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, among others. She is a consultant for the OECD, co-founder of the Gender&Finance project and co-author, with Tom Gamble, of the book `The nature of goods and the goods of nature: why anti-globalization is not the answer'.