Yann ALGAN

Current Position

  • Professor of Economics at Sciences Po Paris
  • Research fellow OFCE
  • Additional Affiliations:  IZA and CEPREMAP (Co-head Macroeconomic program)

Education and Past positions

  • Agrégation du supérieur Sciences économiques, 2004
  • Assistant Professor University Paris I, 2002-2004
  • Professor Paris School of Economics, University Paris Est, 2004-2008
  • Visiting Scholar at MIT, 2007 and at Harvard, 2008

Awards and Grants

  • European Starting Grant 2009-2012: Project "Trust"
  • Best French Young Economist 2009
  • Best French economic book and Best French Essay (LIRE) for "La société de défiance", 2009