Olivia Tsoutsoplidi, PhD in Economics candidate, recipient of ACES Research Award

The Association for Comparative Economic Studies (ACES), an international scholarly organisation for the support of comparative economic studies, launched the Gerard Roland Fellowship to honour and recognise the fundamental contributions of Gerard Roland to the field five years ago. The ACES Dissertation Research Fellowship aims to encourage research on comparative economics by supporting an emerging scholar in the field with funding as they complete their dissertation. ACES typically supports one fellow and two runners-up.

PhD candidate Olivia Tsoutsoplidi received a Research Award alongside Helene Strandt (LMU Munich). Guillermo Woo-Mora (PSE, EHESS) is the 2026-2027 ACES Fellow. 

Olivia's research is in the fields of political economy, economic history, development, and labour economics. Her work examines the dynamics of social movements during periods of structural economic and institutional change, focusing on spillovers between the labour and women’s suffrage movements in modern France. She was a visiting fellow at Harvard University last year and a fourth-year fellow at Aix-MarseilleSchool of Economics (AMSE) in 2025-26.

Congratulations Olivia !