García-Peñalosa, Cecilia

Cecilia García-Peñalosa is a Spanish economist and professor of economics at the Aix-Marseille University. She is also associated to the Institute for Fiscal Studies, has an affiliation with the Bank of France., and is visiting professor at the Department of Social Policy of the London School of Economics. She was an associate editor of the European Economic Review and is currently an associate editor at the Journal of Economic Inequality. and the Journal of Economic Growth. She holds the chair on "Gender, growth and development" at the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (EHESS) in France. From 2012 to 2016, she was a member of the Council of Economics Advisors who advises the Prime Minister of France., and in 2025 she became the president of the Society for the Study of Economic Inequality. In 2009, she won the Aldi Hagenaars Memorial Award and was awarded the silver medal by the French National Centre for Scientific Research in 2025.