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Who are the professors ?

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Program Director : Oliver Vanden Eynde is a professor at the Paris School of Economics and a CNRS research fellow. He obtained his PhD at the London School of Economics. His research explores the economic causes of violent conflict, the role of security forces in the development process, and the political economy of infrastructure provision.

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Ignacio Flores is the coordinator for Latin America and the Caribbean at the World Inequality Database at the Paris School of Economics. He has worked as a researcher at the Stone Center in the City University of New York, contributing to the GC Wealth Project, and a postdoctoral researcher at INSEAD. He obtained his PhD from Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University in 2019. His research focuses mainly on the historical evolution of wealth and income inequality, with particular interest on its relation with the environment, the political sphere and institutions.

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Clara Martinez-Toledano is an assistant professor of Financial Economics and Wealth Distribution Coordinator at the World Inequality Lab. She is a CEPR and CESifo research affiliate, as well as a EU Tax Observatory research fellow. She received her PhD in Economics from the Paris School of Economics. Before joining Imperial, she was a postdoctoral research scholar at Columbia Business School. Her fields of interest are public and political economics. Recent work focuses on understanding the determinants of economic inequalities and political vote within and across countries.

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Thomas Piketty is a professor at the Paris School of Economics and a director of studies at the EHESS. He is the author of historical and theoretical works on the relationship between economic development and the distribution of wealth. In particular, he initiated the recent literature on the long-term evolution of the share of high incomes in national income (now available in the World Wealth and Income Database). He is also the author of Capital in the 21st Century. His work has radically challenged Kuznets’ optimistic hypothesis about the link between development and inequality, and highlighted the importance of political, social and fiscal institutions in the historical dynamics of wealth distribution.

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Thierry Verdier is a professor at the Paris School of Economics and ingenieur général at the École des Ponts ParisTech. He graduated in Civil Engineering from Ecole Polytecnique and Ecole des Ponts et Chaussées, and received his PhD in Economics from EHESS. His fields of interest are international trade and globalization ; social interactions and cultural transmission ; political economy of development ; economics of crime and corruption. He is Fellow of the European Economic Association, and a former member of the European Economic Association Council. He is a research fellow and a former co-director of the International Trade Programme of the CEPR.

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Ekaterina Zhuravskaya is a professor at the Paris School of Economics and at the EHESS. She received her PhD in Economics from Harvard University. She is a CEPR research fellow in Public Policy and Development Economics programs. She received her PhD at Harvard University in 1999 and spent 10 subsequent years working as professor of economics at the New Economic School and as the academic director of the CEFIR. Her primary field of interests is political economics with applications to ethnic violence, culture, media, corruption, and economic history.

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