SSH/ESPO Faculty of Economic, Social and Political Sciences and Communication (ESPO)
SSH/ESPO/EURO Ecole interfacultaire en études européennes (EURO)
SSH/SPLE Institut de sciences politiques Louvain-Europe (ISPOLE)
I am Professor of European Economic Policy at UCLouvain since 2018 and served as co-editor of the journal Politique Européenne (2018–2024). I received my PhD in Political Science from Sciences Po Grenoble in December 2012, with a thesis on how the ECB extended its political influence and competences during the Eurozone crisis. After my PhD, I taught at Sciences Po Lille and conducted post-doctoral research at the Centre de Recherche en Éthique (University of Montreal), the PACTE/CNRS laboratory (H2020 project EmuChoices), and the Financial Ethics Research Group at the University of Gothenburg.
I am the author of numerous publications on central banks, financial ethics, and European economic governance in peer-reviewed journals (Journal of European Public Policy, New Political Economy, History of Political Economy, Revue de la Régulation, Revue française d’administration publique, etc.) and book chapters published by Edward Elgar, Routledge, and Presses de Sciences Po. I co-authored Do Central Banks Serve the People? (Polity, 2018), translated into French (Raisons d’agir, 2019).
I regularly disseminate my research in English-speaking media (Social Europe, Euractiv) and French outlets (France Culture, La Vie des Idées, Veblen Institute, Mediapart, RTBF). As an expert, I contribute to policy-making (hearings in the French National Assembly and Belgian French-speaking Parliament) and professional training programs (for trade unions, central bankers, and civil servants at the Belgian Ministry of Finance). My current research projects focus on the EU Just Transition (Co-PI) and the EU Green Taxonomy (PI).
My teaching includes innovative pedagogical methods with in-class group exercises on podcasting, creating/improving Wikipedia pages on the course topics or simulating advocacy strategies in the EU.
In 2026, I supervise:
PhD Students
Antoine de Cabanes (FNRS grant, 2019–2023): Monetary Politics in Times of Crisis: A Comparison of the Federal Reserve and the ECB (2007–2022)
Eglanty Brun (FNRS grant, since 2022): The Greening of European Capitalism: Strategies and Adaptations of Financial Firms Facing the Ecological Crisis
Zsuzsanna Szeredi (Teaching Assistant, since 2022): The Political Economy of the Legal Infrastructure of the EU Budget: The Financial Regulation of the European Union
Francisco Padilla Olivares (personal funds, UCLouvain): The ECB’s Role in the EU Financial Supervision and Regulation Systems
Post-Doctoral Researchers
Camille Rivière (UCLouvain grant, since 2026): Green-Know: The Development of Sustainability Knowledge in Industrial Firms
Laura Pierret (FNRS postdoctoral grant, since 2026): The Rise and Fall of the Epistemic Authority of Economic Knowledge in the Public Debate
Zoé Evrard (FNRS postdoctoral grant, since 2025): European Planning and Neoliberalism
Tiago Moreira Ramalho (FNRS postdoctoral grant, since 2023): Ideas and Instruments of the European “Just Transition” (co-supervision with Amandine Crespy)
