ENSAE Paris - École d'ingénieurs pour l'économie, la data science, la finance et l'actuariat
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Governance

Two bodies report to the school's management : the Advisory board , which is consulted on the positioning of the school, the general orientation of teaching, organization and operation, student recruitment procedures, relations with companies, and strategic alliances and partnerships; and the Teaching and Research Committee, which deals with the organization of teaching, studies and research, the teaching program, and the procedures for the awarding of degrees, and which sits as a jury or disciplinary board. In addition, the Board of Directors of GENES, which is the legal entity of the school, deliberates on financial decisions, the general organization of the school, as well as on all subjects involving legal decisions, such as the definition of tuition fees or changes in the terms of competitive examinations. Each of these bodies is composed of qualified personalities, staff and student representatives, and ex officio members representing the school's management, the supervisory authority (INSEE) and GENES. Finally, the GENES Scientific Council is consulted on the scientific orientations of ENSAE and CREST.
Governance

Focus on the Advisory Board of ENSAE Paris

The Advisory Board is chaired by Maya ATIG (General Manager of the French Banking Federation). She is joined by :

  • Ex-officio members: the Secretary General of INSEE or his representative, the Director of ENSAE Paris and the Director of ENSAI. 
  • Elected members: three elected representatives of the ENSAE Paris staff (one representative of the administrative staff and two representatives of the teaching staff), three elected representatives of the students and one representative of the ENSAE Alumni.
  • Ten members appointed for three years and elected for their expertise. The choice of these high-level personalities for the new Advisory Board reflects a balance between private companies, public organizations and academic expertise, in order to allow for a fruitful dialogue within the body on the major issues facing the school. The school has also ensured that parity is strictly respected among these appointees.

The Executive Director of GENES is a permanent guest member of the Board with an advisory opinion.

The members appointed for the period 2024-2027 are :

Maya Atig worked at the General Directorate of the Treasury until 2016 before becoming Deputy General Manager of the National Federation of Crédit Agricole until 2020 when she joined the French Banking Federation as General Manager.

Mohamed BACCOUCHE worked for AXA for 20 years, culminating in his appointment as Group Chief Actuary between 2015 and 2020, before joining Athora, a provider of insurance and reinsurance solutions on the European market. In 2022, he founded Yakoota, a company dedicated to promoting reliable information in the insurance market.

An economist specializing in competition and health issues, Philippe Choné was a former rapporteur and chief economist of the French Competition Authority before joining ENSAE-CREST as a teacher-researcher and member of the Authority. He is also a Research Fellow of the "Industrial Organization" group at CEPR.

Patricia CRIFO is an economist, professor at the École Polytechnique and researcher at CREST, working in particular on the themes of climate, sustainable finance, green growth and corporate social and environmental responsibility. She is also Deputy Scientific Director of the interdisciplinary Energy4Climate center at the Institut Polytechnique de Paris.

A research lecturer at ENSAE-CREST in statistical learning, Azadeh KHALEGHI was a winner of the Google Faculty Research Award in 2019/20, in the “Machine learning and data mining” category. She is a member of the Graph4Health team - Accessibility to healthcare and healthcare system performance: A statistical and machine learning approach to high-dimensional graphs, a collaborative-enterprise research project coordinated by Philippe Choné and supported by ANR public funds (2023-2026).

Arnaud Laroche began his career in 1994 at ENSAE-CREST, before later embarking on an entrepreneurial adventure by founding Bluestone Consulting, a consulting firm specialized in data science. In the context of the acquisition of Bluestone by EY, Arnaud Laroche joined EY in 2015 and has since been in charge of the Data, Analytics & Artificial Intelligence activities for the European zone.

Xavier Ragot is an economist, President of the Observatoire français des conjonctures économiques (OFCE), a specialist in macroeconomic issues and a member of the Conseil d'Analyse Économique. 

With over 12 years' experience in the financial industry and data, notably as Executive Director in quantitative finance at JPMorgan Chase in New York and at Criteo as Senior Product Manager, Emilie RANNOU joins Ekimetrics in 2019. She supports numerous players on the Banking, Insurance and Asset Management side in their data strategy and the implementation of data & AI solutions with high added value for business lines.

Dominique Rossin began his career at LIAFA (joint research unit CNRS, Université Paris-Diderot), then joined the Laboratoire d'Informatique de l'X. In 2012, he took up the position of Digital Project Manager at the Île-de-France Regional Delegation for Research and Technology. In 2015, he was appointed Deputy Director of Education and Research in charge of training at X. In 2022, he became Director of Education and Research, and in 2023, he was appointed Vice-President for Education at the Institut Polytechnique de Paris.

After starting her career in strategy consulting at Booz Allen Hamilton (now Strategy& at PwC) and then at Oliver Wyman in the Leadership & Organization practice, Alice TAGGER joined the ENGIE Group to take on various HR responsibilities. In 2022, she became Chief People & Culture Officer of Accenta, a startup spun out of the Ecole Polytechnique's X-Novation Center.