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Camille Landais

Professor of Economics, London School of Economics and Political Science
Camille Landais

Camille Landais is Professor of economics at the London School of Economics and Political Science, Director of the LSE-Gates Hub for Equal Representation in the Economy and Director of the Public Economics Programme of the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR). In addition to his academic position, he maintains affiliations with the Institut des politiques publiques, Institute for Fiscal Studies, STICERD, IZA Institute of Labor Economics, and the European Economic Association, on whose council he sits. He is or has also performed editorial duties for the American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, Journal of Public Economics, Review of Economic Studies, Fiscal Studies and Economic Policy.

Camille Landais holds a PhD from the Paris School of Economics. His research focuses on public finance and labour economics and his articles have appeared in various leading journals such as the American Economic Review, or the Quarterly Journal of Economics. He is the co-author of Pour une révolution fiscale, with Thomas Piketty and Emmanuel Saez. He was awarded the 2016 Prize for French Best Young Economist, and received the Philip Leverhulme Prize in Economics.