2024-01-12 00:29:57
The replacement for Daniel Cohen, who died last August, is known. The 2019 Nobel Prize winner in economics Esther Duflo was elected Thursday as president of the Paris School of Economics, PSE announced in a press release. Esther Duflo was unanimously elected by the board of directors of the school, which aims with her arrival to “establish an international influence”. In the press release, the school says it wants to “continue to anchor PSE in the landscape of higher education and research in France and around the world”.
The 51-year-old Franco-American economist won the Nobel Prize in 2019, along with Abhijit Banerjee and Michael Kremer, for their work on the fight against poverty in the world. She holds the Chair in Poverty and Public Policy at the Collège de France and is professor of the fight against poverty and development economics in the economics department of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
The “emotion” of Esther Duflo
Esther Duflo, graduate in history and economics from the Ecole Normale Supérieure/PSL (Paris Sciences et Lettres) and PSE, and holder of a doctorate in economics at MIT, is also co-founder and co-director of J-PAL, laboratory of action against poverty, the European branch of which is already hosted at PSE. His five-year mandate “should consolidate PSE’s place at 1st among economics departments in Europe and 6th in the world,” the school hopes in its press release.
The Nobel Prize winner testifies to her “emotion” at taking the presidency of this “unique institution which has transformed the face of economic science in Paris”. She praised the “coherent whole”, of “remarkable power” formed from the six founding institutions of PSE. In the press release, PSE salutes the memory of Daniel Cohen, president from July 2021 to August 2023, “who will have had a profound impact on the institution after founding it in 2006 with Thomas Piketty”, another French economist, specialist in inequalities.
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