Insight into the community outreach of Estelle Cantillon

Estelle Cantillon is a FNRS Research Director and professor of economics at the Université Libre de Bruxelles. Her current research focuses on market design applications to energy and the environment, in particular emissions markets and wholesale electricity markets, and on climate transition policies. Estelle holds a Ph.D. from Harvard University and has held faculty appointments at Yale University, Harvard Business School and the Harvard Kennedy School of Government.

Research center: ECARES

 

Estelle Cantillon

  • Founder and director of the Sustainable Development Initiative, since 2018
  • Vice Dean for Academic Programmes, 2016-17
  • Co-director of the Research Master in Economics, 2015-16
  • Member of the University Academic Council and Plenary Assembly, 2014-16
  • Co-director of the Master in Business Economics, 2013-19
  • Co-director of the ECARES doctoral school, 2013-16
  • Member of the University Research Council, 2010-13
  • Vice Dean for Research, 2008-11
  • Member of the Board of Regents and the Audit Committee of the National Bank of Belgium, since 2020
  • Deputy Chair of the Scientific Council of the Brussels Institute for Statistics and Analysis, since 2017
  • Member of the Steering Committee of Rethinking Belgium, since 2011
  • Member of the Economics Council of OXERA, since 2008
  • Developed advanced sustainability and energy transition training for the Brussels and Madrid offices of Bain & Co.
  • Featured in national written media and on national TV on subjects related to energy, economic policy and sustainability. Contributor to VOX EU (popular science)
  • Sustainable Development, Business and Policy (in the bachelor programme)
  • Sustainability 101 (in Executive Education)
  • Information Aggregation in Emissions Markets with Abatement (with Aurélie Slechten), Annals of Statistics and Economics, December 2018, 132 (53-79).
  • The Multi-unit Assignment Problem: Theory and Evidence from Course Allocation at Harvard (with Eric Budish), American Economic Review, August 2012, 102(5), 2237-71.
  • Properties of Scoring Auctions (with John Asker), Rand Journal of Economics, 39(1), Spring 2008, 69-85.
  • Active member of the European Economic Association from 2010 to 2021: Women in Economics committee (2016 – 2021), Standing Committee on Research (2011-14, Chair 2017 – 2020), Council Member (2010-16), Executive Committee (2014-2016), Audit Committee (Chair, 2016 – 2018)
  • Joint Managing Editor of the Economic Journal (Royal Economic Society, London) from 2016 to 2020
  • Associate Editor of the Rand Journal of Economics from 2008 to 2020
  • Member of the Advisory Board of WZB Berlin from 2015 to 1019
  • Co-founder and member of the Executive Committee of the research network “Matching in Practice”, 2010-2019
  • Principal or co-principal investigator of numerous grants including a Starting Grant from the European Research Council (2008) and a grant from the Belgian Energy Transition Fund (2021-26).
  • Awarded several prizes and honors including the David A. Wells Prize for best Ph.D. dissertation at Harvard (2000) and elected member of the Belgian Royal Academy for Arts and Sciences (2020)
  • Organised, co-organized or was a member of the scientific committee of more than 30 conferences and workshops.
  • Gave more than 100 seminars and more than 10 keynote and invited lectures at international conferences.
  • Google Scholar citations above 1,800