Olivier Godechot, AxPo Director

Professor of Sociology
CNRS Research Professor
Chair Holder

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Olivier Godechot studies labor markets, in particular financial and academic labor markets, as a means of understanding the development of unequal exchange relations at work and their impact on the dynamics of inequality. He has published four books on finance, labor markets, and traders, including Wages, Bonuses and Appropriation of Profit in the Financial Industry: the Working Rich with Routledge (2017). He is currently conducting research on the process of socioeconomic segregation at work and on the fission of social groups, which he approaches through the study of team moves in finance and law firms, and party splits in politics. Before heading AxPo, Olivier Godechot was Co-director of MaxPo from 2013 to 2022, where he led a research group on the issue of financialization in modern societies.

Zsófia Barta

https://www.sciencespo.fr/centre-etudes-europeennes/en/directory/barta-zsfia/

Zsófia Barta is a political economist. Her main research interests center on the politics of public debt, covering diverse aspects of public finances from societal conflicts surrounding austerity to the influence of the markets for government debt on policy choice. Her first book, In The Red: The Politics of Public Debt Accumulation in Developed Countries (University of Michigan Press, 2018) explored the variation in countries' ability to control their debt. Her second book, Rating Politics Sovereign Credit Ratings and Democratic Choice in Prosperous Developed Countries (Oxford University Press, 2023) focused on the influence that sovereign credit rating agencies exercise over politics and policy choice in developed democracies. Barta has also published a series of journal articles related to the issue of sovereign credit ratings in the Socio-Economic Review, the Review of International Political Economy , Comparative Political Studies , the Journal of Public Policy and the Journal of European Integration among others.

Damien Bol

https://www.sciencespo.fr/cevipof/en/directory/bol-damien/

Damien Bol is a professor and researcher at the Center for Political Research (CEVIPOF) in Sciences Po Paris. Prior to his current position, he worked at the University of Montreal and King's College London. He earned his PhD from the University of Louvain. In his research, Bol uses experiments and surveys to study the role of elections in shaping people’s experiences with representative democracy, both from a micro and comparative perspective. His current interests include citizens’s attitudes toward democracy and its institutions (democracy in general, electoral systems, deliberative assemblies), as well as voting behavior (strategic voting, turnout). Bol is currently the Director of the newly created network for electoral studies in France (REEF, Réseau d'Études Électorales en France), which gathers around 100 researchers from a dozen of universities across the country.

Philipp Brandt

https://www.sciencespo.fr/cso/en/researcher/Philipp%20Brandt/8424.html 

Philipp Brandt studies emerging professions, expert work and their effects in historical, economic and technological settings. His main project analyzes the construction of a professional “data scientist” identity in New York City’s tech community.

In a new project, he shifts focus to the dying profession of yellow cab drivers. Philipp combines computational methods with qualitative field observations to address these issues.

Mathilde Emeriau

https://medialab.sciencespo.fr/en/people/mathilde-emeriau/

Mathilde Emeriau is an Assistant Professor in Computational Social Science. She holds a PhD in Political Science from Stanford University and a M.A in Economics from the Paris School of Economics. Before joining the médialab, she was an Assistant Professor in the Government department at the London School of Economics. Emeriau studies the determinants of immigrant integration in France using quantitative methods. She exploits a wide variety of data sources (government surveys, original data collection, and archival sources) and research designs to draw robust causal inferences (randomized experiments, event studies, and regression discontinuity designs). Emeriau is also involved in the work of the Laboratory for Interdisciplinary Evaluation of Public Policies (LIEPP) and the Project Liberty Institute (former McCourt Institute).

Isabelle Méjean

https://www.sciencespo.fr/department-economics/en/researcher/isabelle-mejean.html

Isabelle Méjean is Professor of Economics at Sciences Po since 2021. She is also a Research Fellow at the Centre for Economic Policy and Research (CEPR). Among her editorial duties, she is the Managing Editor of Economic Policy as of October 2021 (and just completed a mandate as the Co-Editor of the European Economic Review). She is a member of the Conseil d’Analyse Économique since 2020 as well as Member of the Scientific Advisory Council of the Kiel Institute.

Isabelle Méjean’s research interests span international macroeconomics and international trade. She is particularly interested in the structure of firm-to-firm trade networks and its consequences for various aggregate outcomes. She publishes regularly in the top peer-reviewed international journals such as American Economic Review, Econometrica, Journal of International Economics, the Journal of Urban Economics, and the American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics.

Administration

Allison Rovny, Ph.D., Executive Director
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allison.rovny@sciencespo.fr