single authored

single authored

 with Ghinetti P., Moriconi S., Naguib C., Pellizzari M. 

[Project financed by the Swiss National Research Fund] 

 with Naguib C., Pellizzari M.  

The award releases its beneficiaries from teaching duties for one semester by financing a replacement. 

Mentor: Professor Deborah Madsen

 Instructors: Giovanni Ferro-Luzzi; Jérémy Laurent-Lucchetti;  Frédéric Robert-Nicoud  

Instructor: Federica Sbergami  

Instructor: Nicolas Maystre  

Instructors: Giovanni Ferro-Luzzi; Jérémy Laurent-Lucchetti  

I am co-founder and co-president of Rare Voices in Economics  (former Women in Economics Léman),  a joint initiative by Ph.D. students at the Graduate Institute Geneva, the University of Geneva, the University of Lausanne, and EPFL since 2019.

We are Ph.D. students in Economics, some of us are “rare voices*”, and others are not. We all believe that our profession could do better both in terms of individual experience and productivity via better allocation of talents. Creating a safe space for diverse voices to express themselves can benefit everybody. Our mission is to keep this discussion open and advocate for change at the institutional level.

1. Raising awareness and fostering an open exchange through our workshops. We review relevant scientific papers and reflect during our occasional roundtables with experts in the field.
2. Leveling the playing field through our mentoring program and theater workshops to empower PhD students in building networks and mastering challenging environments.
3. Promoting institutional change via our guidelines for more inclusive economics departments. These changes are approved by the Graduate Institute and sparked a conversation within other departments.
4. Creating a safe space for research using our research clusters and our annual Rare Voices in Economics conference. During these events, we create secure and stimulating places to discuss research.

[2019-present] Co-founder and co-president  

[2020] With Alice Antunes and Laura Minu Nowzohour:

We organized the Spring and Fall Workshop Series : 

1. [Women's careers in economics] The origin and the path - invited speaker Prof. Beatrice Weder di Mauro (IHEID)
2. [Women’s careers in economics] Leadership and glass ceilings - invited speaker Prof. Lore Vandewalle (IHEID)
3. [Big picture] Microaggression and persistence social norms - invited speaker Prof. Kenza Benhima (UniL)
4. [Policy options] What works and what doesn’t in leveling the gender playing field? - invited speaker Tineke Ritzema (Symbiotics)
5. [Big picture] Origins of gender stereotypes: is gendered behavior only trained behavior? - invited speaker Prof. Jaya Krishnakumar (UniGe)
6. Intersectionality, race, and gender - invited speaker Saraly Andrade De Sa (UniGe)
7. The Impact of COVID-19 on the Gender Gap and vice versa. What question to ask? - invited speaker Prof. Julia Cajal Grossi (IHEID)
8. Sexual harassment, consent, and positive female sexuality - invited speaker Prof. Eleonore Lepinard (UniL)

We launched the 1st edition of the Mentoring Program  - we matched successfully 13 mentors with 20 mentees. 

In Spring, I officially registered the association at the University of Geneva (link here). 

[2021]  With Laura Minu Nowzohour, I co-organize the 1st edition of the Rare Voices in Economics Conference:

-  Keynote lectures: Prof. Emmanuelle Auriol (TSE) and Prof. Estefania Santacreu-Vasut (ESSEC Business School);

-  19 participants joined for presentations and poster sessions;

-  Roundtable "Pathways for More Inclusive Economics Departments: What Works and What Doesn't" (see below); 

- Ice-breaking Session, Discussion & Sharing Session with the theater professional Nathaly Leduc

[2022] I presented the association on the following occasions: 

- Equality Committee (GSEM-UniGe)

- [Royal Economic Society Annual Conference] Networking session: Working on Diversifying Economics? Session organized by Prof. Stefania Paredes Fuentes (Warwick)

- [Study Center Gerzensee] Introduction session for the first year Ph.D. students at the 

Swiss Program for Beginning Doctoral Students in Economics (with Laura Minu Nowzohour)

With Pritam Saha (UniGe), Wenxia Tang (UniL), and Viktória Vidaházy (IHEID), we are running the 3rd edition of the Mentoring Program (19 mentors and 22 mentees). I am following the collaboration with the Royal Economic Society to train our mentors with their program "Consciously Inclusive Mentoring". 

I am supporting the Communication Team for our Twitter and LinkedIn pages. 

With the RViE Steering Committee, we are collecting resources about #EconMeToo movement. We are actively engaged in keeping a direct communication channel with our departments about the topic.