Emmanuelle Auriol
Emmanuelle Auriol (born 5 December 1966 in Toulouse) is a French economist. She is chair of the Women in Economics (WinE) Committee. Career Auriol is an IDEI researcher, a member of the Toulouse School of Economics (TSE) and professor of economics at the University of Aix-Marseille (1996-1997) and Toulouse I (1998-). She is mainly devoted to the study of the regulation and organization theory, including industrial organization and the economics of development. Auriol is a fellow of the European Economic Association. She is also a regular contributor to Le Monde and the economic press. Political positions In 2015, as a solution to the problems posed by illegal immigration, Auriol proposed in Libération to "legalize economic immigration by selling visas to people who wish to work with us." In 2021, she was the co-author of a government-sponsored report that described how France’s growth has been hampered by its immigration policies. Ahead of the 2017 French presidential election, Auriol publicly endorsed Emmanuel Macron's candidacy. Awards 1996: Prize of the French Association of Banks 2002: Nominated for the Best Young Economist of France, the newspaper Le Monde 2003 Bronze Medal of the CNRS (Centre national de la recherche scientifique) 2003: Junior member of