Hippolyte d’Albis is Professor at ESSEC Business School and Chief Economist at the French Inspectorate General of Finance. He is also Vice-President of the Cercle des économistes, Director of the French team of the National Transfer Accounts project, columnist for Les Échos, and Associate Editor of the Journal of Demographic Economics, the Journal of the Economics of Ageing, and Public Finance Review. He holds a PhD in Economics from Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University and is an agrégé des universités (tenured professor). He has been Associate Professor at Toulouse 1 University, Professor at Montpellier 3 University, Professor at Paris 1 University, and Research Director at the CNRS. He has also served as Director of the Panthéon-Sorbonne Doctoral School of Economics, Deputy Scientific Director at the CNRS Institute for Humanities and Social Sciences (INSHS), advisor at the Ministry of Higher Education and Research, and Director of the Graduate School of Demography (École des Hautes Études en Démographie).
His academic research primarily examines the economic consequences of demographic change. His work has been published in journals in economics, demography, mathematics, as well as in leading general science journals such as Science, Science Advances, Scientific Reports, and PLOS One. He has been elected to the Institut Universitaire de France and is the recipient of the Philippe Michel Prize for young researchers in economic dynamics, the Best Young Economist Award (awarded by Le Monde and the Cercle des économistes), a European Research Council grant, and the Grand Prize for Social Protection (awarded by the Caisse des Dépôts and En3s) for his book Les seniors et l’emploi.
Diplomas
- 2004: Doctorate, Economy, Economics (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne France)
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- 2025 – Now : Professor (ESSEC Business School France)
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- 2022 – Now : Chief economist (Inspection générale des finances France)