Faculty

Patricia is Professor of Economics at Ecole Polytechnique and researcher at CREST. She is also research fellow of the Institut des Politiques Publiques and external member of CIRANO (Montréal).

At Ecole Polytechnique she is the academic director of the Master of science and Technology « Economics for Smart Cities and Climate Policy», co-responsible of the center for Sustainable Finance and Responsible Investment (FDIR) and deputy director of the interdisciplinary intitiative Energy4climate.

She is member of various economic councils or institutions in France, among which: the Prudential Supervision and Resolution Authority (ACPR)’s Supervisory College and Climate and Sustainable Finance Commission, the Economic Council for Sustainable Development, the Greenfin and SRI label Committees, and the Social investment forum / PRI Jury. She is also member of the "Observatoire de l'Ethique Publique" (French Public Ethics Observatory).

She started her career as CNRS researcher in 2005, and became University Professor in 2006 (through a French National Contest- "Premier concours national d'agregation pour le recrutement des Professeurs d'Université en Sciences Economiques"). She was Professor at the University of Haute Alsace between 2006 and 2009 and at the University Paris Nanterre between 2009 and 2019.

Former student of Ecole Normale Superieure Paris Saclay (Cachan) , she graduated from a Master in Economics at University Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne and Ecole Centrale Paris in 1997 and obtained her PhD in Economics in 2001 at University of Lyon. She was nominated Best Young Economist by Le Monde/Cercle des économistes in 2010, and received the title of Chevalier de l'Ordre National du Mérite in 2014, and best young researcher in 2002 (Lyon).