DAVID ALARY

Associate Professor, Toulouse School of Economics, First Vice-President University Toulouse
Capitole, Deputy Director in charge of the Master Programs, Toulouse School of Economics,
Head Master in Economics and Law. Fields of Interest : Contract Theory, Decision Theory, Insurance, Bank and Finance, Health Economics.

JOAN BUSQUETS Personal Webpage

 Joan Busquets (born 1946) is an internationally renowned Spanish architect and urban planner. He holds professorships at the Technical University of Catalonia and the Harvard Graduate School of Design. He was awarded the 2011 Erasmus Prize, an annual award for a person who has made an exceptional contribution to European culture, society or social science, "in appreciation of his impressive and multifaceted oeuvre in the field of city planning."

Busquets’ designs include new urban centres, reconstruction of old and neglected urban areas and the development of infrastructure. His practice had been developed mainly in Europe, like: Barcelona, Toledo, Mallorca, La Coruña, Las Palmas in Spain, also Lisbon, Viseu ,Barreiro and Coimbra in Portugal; Trento, Alghero in Italy; The Hague, Amsterdam, Delft and Helmond in the Netherlands; Dunkerque, Rouen and Paris in France; Geneva in Swiszerland. (He has been advising some international projects in Buenos Aires, Sao Paulo, ShenZhen, Beijing, Ningbo and Singapore.

LAURENT CHICOINEAU

Head of administration of the Quai des Savoirs : an institution dedicated to scientific, technical and industrial culture supported by local authorities and several associations and local actors of scientific culture.

JOËL ETCHEVARRIA

Chief Operating Officer, Toulouse School of Economics (TSE) , a thriving world-renowned center for research in economics chaired by Nobel laureate Jean Tirole.

TSE strives to:

• provide solutions to today’s key economic and social issues
• promote excellence in research & higher education
• encourage pioneering interdisciplinary research
• connect research to policy, in France, Europe and worldwide
• implement highest international standards in its own governance

JEAN-MICHEL LATTES

Professor and researcher specializing in labor law at Toulouse Capitole University since 1985, Jean-Michel Lattes is also involved in political and city life in Toulouse  by being both deputy mayor of Toulouse and vice-president at Toulouse Metropole in charge of transport and president of Tisséo-SMTC, the local operator of public transport.

  PAUL SEABRIGHT      Personal webpage

Director (since September 2012) of the Institute for Advanced Study in Toulouse (IAST), he teaches Economics at the Toulouse School of Economic.His current research lies in three areas of microeconomics: industrial organization and competition policy; the economics of networks and the digital society; and behavioral economics (especially the integration of evolutionary biology and anthropology with an understanding of the development of economic institutions in the very long run)

M. RONAN TOURNIER        Personal webpage