Cecilia GARCIA-PENALOSA

Biographie

Cecilia García-Peñalosa (Ph.D., Oxford University, 1995) is Professor of Economics at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique and at the Aix-Marseille School of Economics. Since 2017 she has held the chair on Gender, Growth and Development at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales. Cecilia García-Peñalosa has held positions at the Autonomous University of Barcelona and the University of Oxford, has been associate editor of the European Economic Review, and is a currently associate editor of the Journal of Economic Inequality and council member of the Society for the Study of Economic Inequality. She regularly does policy work for, amongst others, the European Commission and the World Bank. She has been a member of the Conseil d'Analyse Economique, an independent advisory group that reports to the French Prime Minister, and of the European Economy Advisory Group, a think tank based in Munich. Her research focuses mainly on long-term growth and income inequality.