Cédric Chambru

Associate Professor, Department of Economics, École Normale Supérieure de Lyon

Cédric Chambru is an Associate Professor at the Department of Economics at the École normale supérieure de Lyon as well as a member of the Center for Economic Research on Governance, Inequality and Conflict (CERGIC). His research spans political economy and economic history. His research interest centers on understanding the role of institutions and state-building in long run development. Another strand of his research studies the evolution of living standards during the Industrial Revolution. In addition, he is interested in the study historical social conflict. Since November 2020, he is the co-maintainer of the Historical Social Conflict Database (HiSCoD). He also wrote several papers related to colonial history, and he is currently preparing a manuscript, which documents the emergence and properties of the French imperial elites and how they both used and contributed to the formation of the structure of the Empire between 1880 and 1950. Prior to joining the ENS Lyon, he worked at the University of Zurich as post-doctoral researcher between 2019 and 2023. He obtained my PhD at the University of Geneva in 2019. He has been visiting researcher at Bocconi University, Centre for Advanced Study (Oslo), University of Caen Normandie, University of Mohammed VI Polytechnique, University of Montreal, University of Oxford, and Yeungnam University.