Estelle Cantillon

Born in Namur, on 2 September 1971
Regent since 18 May 2020
Profession
FNRS Research Director at the Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management (ULB)
Studies
- Ph.D. in Economics, Harvard University, USA (2000)
- M.Phil. in Economics, Cambridge University, UK (1995)
- M.Sc. in Management and Applied Sciences, Université Libre de Bruxelles (Solvay) (1994)
- Candidate in Physics, Université Libre de Bruxelles (1992)
Career
- Post-doctoral Fellow, Cowles Foundation, Yale University (2000-2001)
- Assistant Professor, Harvard Business School (2001-2006)
- FNRS Research then Senior Research Associate, at the Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management (ULB) (2004-2016)
- Visiting Professor of Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School of Government (2014-2015)
- FNRS Research Director since 2016
Other current functions or mandates
- Member of the Belgian Royal Academy (class “Technology and Society”) (since 2020)
- Deputy Chair of the Scientific Council of the Brussels Institute for Statistics and Analysis (since 2017)
- Associated researcher, Toulouse School of Economics (since 2016)
- Steering Committee, Rethinking Belgium (since 2011)
- European Economic Association (since 2010)
- Standing Committee on Research (Chair since 2017)
- Women in Economics Committee (since 2016)
- Research Affiliate then Fellow, Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) (since 2000)
- Member of OXERA’s Economics Council (since 2008)
Past functions or mandates
- Co-editor, Economic Journal (2016-2020)
- Associate editor, Rand Journal of Economics (2008-2020)
- Member of the Advisory Board, WZB Berlin (2015-2019)
- Executive Committee, European Association for Research in Industrial Economics (2011-2014)
- Member of the Scientific Committee of the Belgian Observatory for Energy (2011-2013)
- Co-founder and Executive Committee, "Matching in Practice" research network (2010-2019)