Angela SUTAN

Associate Professor
department: Law, Political Science & Society
Campus de Cergy
Career
Biography

I am a (HDR) Professor in Sustainability at the Law, Political Sciences and Society Department in ESSEC, France. I am the Scientific Director of the ESSEC Experimental Lab et the Academic Director of the Executive Master in Strategies for Sustainabiluty (EMS2).I mainly use behavioral and experimental economics tools in my research. I write academic papers in Management Science, Ecological Economics, Games and Economic Behavior… and I obtained several national and international research grants on topics related to sustainability, (anti)social behavior and introspective level-k thinking. I am active in the media (Harvard Business Review, The Conversation, Le Monde, etc…) in science popularization, in pedagogical innovation. I was part of the Ministry of Research Exhibition "145 women talk about science" and I coordinated the Big Experiment (la Grande Experience Participative) for the Researchers' Night. I also act as an associate editor for the Journal of Experimental and Behavioral Economics, as the secretary of the ASFEE and as a member of the Scientific Committee of the European PhD in socio-economic and statistical studies at La Sapienza, Rome.

Diplomas

  • 2024: Qualification to the function of University Full Professor, Economics, CNU05 (CNU 05 France)
  • 2011: Habilitation à diriger des recherches, Behavioral Economics (Université de Montpellier France)
  • 2006: Qualification to the function of Associate Professor, CNU 05, Economics (CNU 05 France)
  • 2005: Doctor of Philosophy, Behavioral Economics (Université de Strasbourg France)
Career
Full-time academic appointments
    • 2024 – Now : Associate Professor (ESSEC Business School France)
Other Academic Appointments
    • 2024 – 2026 : Academic Director of the MGO on the Sustainability Track (ESSEC Business School France)
    • 2024 – Now : Scientific Director ESSEC Experimental Lab (ESSEC Business School France)
    • 2024 : Visiting Professor (Luiss University Italy)
    • 2023 : Visiting Professor (Sapienza Università di Roma Italy)
    • 2022 : Visiting Professor (University College of Dublin Ireland)
    • 2015 : Visiting Professor (Universitat Pompeu Fabra Spain)
    • 2012 – 2013 : Visiting Professor (LMU Munich Germany)
    • 2010 – 2014 : Visiting Professor, CENDEF (University of Amsterdam Netherlands)
    • 2009 : Visiting Professor (Copenhagen Business School Denmark)
    • 2005 – 2024 : Head of LESSAC (Burgundy School of Business France)
Distinctions

Grants

  • 2025 : Disentangling the impact of components of social interactions on negotiation: an experiment, Transcend Research Project, CERESSEC (ESSEC Business School, France)
  • 2025 : Testing intergenerational sustainability dilemmas in the lab: what systemic, institutional and implicit incentives work? Transcend Research Project, CERESSEC (ESSEC Business School, France)
  • 2024 : PHC Ulysses, ADEME, Campus France and Irish Research Council – Who suffers more from paperwork? Comparing Administrative Burdens Across Ireland and France as Barriers to Implementation of the National Climate Action Plans (PI) 10k€ (Agence de la transition écologique – ADEME, France)
  • 2023 : SPORT – Selection into competition, stereotypes and competitiveness, ANR project (CoPI; PI Marc Willinger) 360 k€ (Agence Nationale pour la Recherche (ANR), France)
  • 2022 : BE-AWARE – Bringing environmental issues closer to the public with augmented reality, ANR project (CoPI; PI Martin Hachet, INRIA Bordeaux) 500k€ (Agence Nationale pour la Recherche (ANR), France)
  • 2019 : ISITE UBFC International Coach – Coaching for the LESSAC team by Uri Gneezy (PI) 600k€ (Université de Bourgogne Franche-Comté, France)
  • 2016 : BEAM – Behavioral and Experimental Analyses in Macro-finance, ANR Open Research Area for the Social Sciences in Europe (WP leader; PI Nobuyuki Hanaki) 500k€ (Agence Nationale pour la Recherche (ANR), France)
  • 2012 : TWAIN – Technology use at Work And INnovative work practices: Assessing the impact on work environment, employees’ motivations and effort, FNR (Fonds National de Recherche) Luxembourg (WP leader; PI Ludivine Martin) 500k€ (Fonds National de la Recherche (FNR), Luxembourg)
  • 2009 : EXPALIM – An experimental investigation of credence attributes and contextual effects, Burgundy Regional Council (PI) 300k€ (Conseil Régional de Bourgogne, France)
  • 2009 : EXPADEC – Experimental investigation of entrepreneurs’ choices, Burgundy Regional Council (PI) 300k€ (Conseil Régional de Bourgogne, France)
  • 2009 : VINPEST – An experimental investigation of the willingness to respect the environment in the wine area, APR Pesticides Ministry of Ecology (PI) 200k€ (Ministère de l’Ecologie, France)
  • 2008 : PARI grants – Conseil Regional Bourgogne (PI) 20k€ (Conseil Régional de Bourgogne, France)
  • 2007 : ECONET – Envy and social status, ECONET (former PHC) Research Project Ministry of Foreign Affairs (PI) 20k€ (Ministère des Affaires étrangères, France)

Awards

  • 2015 : Coordinator of the Great Participative Experiment, Researchers’ Night (European Researchers’ Night, France)
  • 2013 : Laureate of “145 femmes vous parlent de science”, Ministère de la Recherche. (Ministère de la jeunesse, de l’éducation nationale et de la recherche)
  • 2009 : Grand Prix de l’Innovation Pédagogique in Business Schools pour la création du LESSAC (Conférence des Grandes Ecoles (CGE), France)
  • 2005 : Best PhD Thesis Award (SAUAS, Academy of Strasbourg) (Académie de Strasbourg, France)
Research

Journal articles

Working Papers

Teaching

Thesis jury member

  • 2025 : Populations vulnérables et comportements, Habilitation à Diriger les Recherches, Noémi Berlin (Université Paris X Nanterre )
  • 2024 : Paradoxe d’une efficience perturbée par l’adoption de l’IA (Université de Nantes France)

Thesis referee

  • 2025 : Playing favourites: investigating information search before set selection (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne France)
Other activities
Professional activities
  • Member of a professional association, of an expert group or of a board of directors
    • 2025 – Now: Member of the evaluation committee of the ANR in committee CE26 – Individus, entreprises, marchés, finance, management (Agence Nationale pour la Recherche (ANR) France)
    • 2024 – Now: HCERES expert (Haut Conseil de l’Evaluation de la Recherche et de l’Enseignement Supérieur France)
Theses
  • 2025 : BERLIN N. (Université Paris X Nanterre), Thesis jury member, Populations vulnérables et comportements, Habilitation à Diriger les Recherches, Noémi Berlin
  • 2025 : DAGBA J.-M. (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne), Thesis referee, Playing favourites: investigating information search before set selection, PhD, Jean-Michel DagbaPlaying favourites: investigating information search before set selection
  • 2024 : DUARTE M. (Université de Nantes), Thesis jury member, Paradoxe d’une efficience perturbée par l’adoption de l’IA