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.

Salomé grew up in Allier, Cher and Nièvre. She passed her baccalaureate in Nevers, then entered hypokhâgne at the Lycée Fénelon in Paris.

Salomé graduated from SciencesPo Paris with a master's degree in Public Affairs, and from the master's degree From the Renaissance to the Enlightenment shared by the École Normale Supérieure and the Sorbonne. As a student, she chaired the Olivaint Conference.

She began her career as a project manager at the Presidency of the Republic, then in strategic communications consulting before joining the office of the Minister of Foreign Affairs as a speech and foresight advisor.

In 2016, Salomé founded the Rura association (formerly Chemins d'avenirs) which fights against territorial fractures by betting on young people from rural areas and small towns. This structure of the Social and Solidarity Economy now has 47 employees and has supported more than 13,000 young people, individually, in building their academic, professional and civic paths.

Salomé is now the CEO of Rura. She is also a corporate speaker and the author of several books, including Les Invisibles de la République (2019, Robert Laffont editions), Nos campagnes suspendus (2020, L'Observatoire editions), La peau des pêches (2021, Stock editions). Collection director at the Aube editions, she has just published a collective book, Loin de Paris. A columnist in the regional daily press, an Ashoka Fellow, Salomé prepares high school and undergraduate students for the competitive examinations at SciencesPo Paris, provincial IEPs and journalism schools.

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.

PhD from INSEAD and Doctor of Management Sciences from Paris-Dauphine, Fabrice Cavarretta was also a student at Ecole Polytechnique (Eng), Stanford/ENSTA (Ms CS) and Harvard (MBA). He teaches Entrepreneurship and Leadership in MBA and continuing education. His thesis explored the link between organizational factors (team, leader, resources) and performance, focusing in particular on extreme cases (successes and failures). His current research focuses on managerial doctrines, and in particular "lean management", whether in entrepreneurial or intrapreneurial contexts. Fabrice Cavarretta has 12 years of operational management experience, including as division director of a large media/telecom group, and founder of a startup in the field of social networks.

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.

Lecturer in education and training sciences at the EMA laboratory (Ecole Mutations Apprentissage) of the CY Cergy University Paris, and associated with the SAMM laboratory (Statistics Analysis and Mathematical Modeling) of the University Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, Muriel Epstein is an associate professor of mathematics, a graduate of ENSAE and a doctor of sociology.

After working on school dropout and spatial segregation, her research focused on innovation as a possible lever for transformations towards a more inclusive school. She is particularly interested in the risks of crystallization linked to digital technology and the possibilities of evolving the role and posture of teachers through collaborative research, particularly international. She also works on questions of methods and the articulation of qualitative and quantitative methods in social science research.

She is currently leading a European research project “ProVEST” for Professionalisation of Teachers and Mentors in Vocational Education to Realise Powerful Transformative Learning Environments for a Sustainable Transition which aims to contribute to a sustainable transition in Europe by identifying what enables the professionalisation of mentoring teams to help vocational high schools foster inclusive and high quality learning environments across Europe.

Through various experiences in both the public and private sectors, I have been keen to take on ambitious challenges, whether in France or abroad.

First in the banking sector by contributing to the creation of a subsidiary, leading transformation projects, managing multicultural teams, sometimes remotely, managing strategic projects internationally, with team management as a cornerstone.

In parallel with my professional life, I have been involved in associative activist actions to fight against inequalities through sports, at the national and international level.

I also contributed to the launch of a network of collaborators (ERG) in a large French banking group.

These associative responsibilities at the national and international level also led me to evolve into a position of advisor to the Minister in charge of Gender Equality, Diversity and Equal Opportunities as a technical advisor on LGBT+ Rights.

A new, different experience, where the importance of equality for all, of inclusion and respect for uniqueness, also an added value of a society, became even more anchored in my aspirations.

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'.