A CIRANO Associate Researcher and Fellow since 2017, Philippe de Donder is Research Director at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) assigned to Toulouse School of Economics. He is also Associate Editor of the Journal of Public Economic Theory, Social Choice and Welfare and Member of the Board of Editors of the Journal of Regulatory Economics.

Holding a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Namur, his research focuses on public economics, political economy and economics of regulation.

He began his career as a lecturer at the Toulouse 1 University Capitole before joining CNRS in 2001. He has also been a visiting professor at the University of Rochester (2000) and Yale (2007), and a professor at the Université du Québec à Montréal from 2017 to 2019.

He has published more than fifty articles in journals such as the Journal of Public Economics, The Economic Journal, Journal of Health Economics, Social Choice and Welfare, Economic Theory and International Journal of Industrial Organization.