Professor Raouf Boucekkine – Keynote speaker for VEAM 2024

About Professor Raouf Boucekkine

Raouf Boucekkine is Professor of Economics at Aix-Marseille School of Economics (Aix-Marseille University). He was professor at UCLouvain, 1998-2013, and at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, 1993-1998, among other appointments. He has been elected Fellow of the Econometric Society in 2020, and he is Honorary Senior Fellow of the Institut Universitaire de France, being nominated as a senior member in 2014. He has also served as president-elect then president of ASSET (Association of Southern-European Economic Theorists) from 2013 to 2017, and as the Europe-based coordinator of the world network of Institutes for Advanced Study, UBIAS, 2018-2020. He’s fellow of the Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) in Durham University, UK, in 2024-2025.
Boucekkine has been director of several institutions throughout Europe. He has been, among others, scientific director of Aix-Marseille School of Economics (2011-2015), co-director of the Center of Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE) at UCLouvain (2008-2010) and deputy chairman of the department of economics at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (1997-1998). He has also been director of the IAS at Aix-Marseille University, IMéRA (2015-2020), scientific and technical director of the French network of IASs, RFIEA (2016-2020), and he founded the Centre for Unframed Thinking at Rennes School of Business in 2022, the first IAS based in a business school.
Boucekkine’s main research areas range from economic growth theory and development to sustainability science through economic and mathematical demography and epidemiology, game theory and mathematical methods in social sciences, where he has extensively published. He has acted as Associate Editor in eight reputed journals including the Journal of Economic Dynamics & Control, Economic Theory or Journal of Mathematical Economics. He has also published in several prestigious interdisciplinary journals for example Science Advances, Nonlinear Analysis and Population and Development Review.