Rim Lahmandi-Ayed

Full Professor in Economics and Former Director, Higher School of Statistics and Information Analysis

Rim Lahmandi-Ayed is a full professor in economics, former director of Higher School of Statistics and Information Analysis (2011-2017). She founded (2014) and has been managing a research laboratory «Economic and Statistic Modeling and Analysis ». She is a graduate of the prestigious french engineering school, Ecole Polytechnique, and a doctor in economics. She founded and had managed a research master in economic modeling and econometrics in Tunisia Polytechnic School (2004-2013). She is a member of the steering committee of the Euro-African Conference in Finance and Economics and has been a member of the scientific and organizing committee of all its editions. She supervised 4 doctoral theses, in collaboration with French colleagues from Paris 1 and Aix-Marseille. She published numerous articles in industrial economics and economic theory, in relation with product differentiation, labor market, general equilibrium, globalization, poverty, environment… She published in International Economic Review, International Journal of Industrial Organization, Economic Theory, Journal of Mathematical Economics… She was recently elected as fellow of the Econometric Society and as Economic Theory fellow. She is fellow of the Pan-African Scientific Research Council (PASRC) where she is vice-chair of the research committee and vice-president of the executive committee.