Alexandra Roulet
Associate Professor of Economics and Political Science
Alexandra Roulet
Alexandra Roulet is an Associate Professor of Economics at INSEAD. She is also a CEPR Research Fellow and co-directs the CEPR Research Policy Network on "Growth, Innovation and Social Model in Europe".
Alexandra’s research focuses on labour economics and has been published in leading academic journals such as the American Economic Review, the Quarterly Journal of Economics or the Journal of Public Economics. She is the co-winner of the 2017 Upjohn Institute Dissertation Award. In 2024 she was named the best French economist under 40 by Le Cercle des économistes and the newspaper Le Monde.
Alexandra worked as economic advisor to President Macron and Prime Minister Borne from June 2022 to September 2023. She is currently a member of the French Council of Economic Analysis.
She graduated from the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris, and earned her PhD in Economics at Harvard University in 2017.
Alexandra’s research focuses on labour economics and has been published in leading academic journals such as the American Economic Review, the Quarterly Journal of Economics or the Journal of Public Economics. She is the co-winner of the 2017 Upjohn Institute Dissertation Award. In 2024 she was named the best French economist under 40 by Le Cercle des économistes and the newspaper Le Monde.
Alexandra worked as economic advisor to President Macron and Prime Minister Borne from June 2022 to September 2023. She is currently a member of the French Council of Economic Analysis.
She graduated from the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris, and earned her PhD in Economics at Harvard University in 2017.
Latest posts
What the Next AI Revolution May Look Like
Alexandra Roulet
Move aside, large language models. Smarter, more controlled world models are the future, says prominent AI architect Yann LeCun.
The Courage to Tackle Fear as a Leader
Alexandra Roulet
“Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the assessment that something else is more important than fear.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
Consumers’ Green Conscience Fosters Clean Innovation
A. Roulet, P. Aghion
It’s not cheap talk; when market competition is fierce, the effect of consumers’ values on green innovation can be as strong as a large fuel price increase.
Bridging Prosperity and Need
Alexandra Roulet
A country's overall economic figures don't always speak to the difficulty of life for many people. Even Singapore needs a food bank.
Why Not Enough Women Are Senior Leaders
A. Roulet, A. Lawson
True parity in the workplace is still a distant goal. INSEAD faculty outline why women aren’t advancing and the role gender stereotypes play.
Why We Haven’t Fixed Gender Inequality at Work
Alexandra Roulet
Research by Claudia Goldin, the 2023 Nobel Prize winner in Economics, offers ground-breaking insights about a long-standing problem.