IOEA could not be possible without the precious work of a strong, close-knit and competent organization team. This organization team is composed of the co-directors, the academy's coordinators and the seminars chairs.
Co-Directors
Eric Brousseau
Professor of Economics and Management at the University Paris-Dauphine. He is the scientific director of the Chair Governance and Regulation and a past-president of SIOE.
He initiated IOEA — at that time the European School for New Institutional Economics (ESNIE) — in 2002 and has been running this event and the related network since then.
Simon Porcher
Professor (Agrégé des Universités) in Strategy and Public Management at Paris Dauphine University, part of PSL Research University, and member of the Dauphine Research in Management (CNRS UMR). He is also Co-Director of the Water Economics Institute.
He joined the organizing team of the IOEA since the 2026 edition alongside Eric Brousseau, together with Jens Prüfer and Giorgio Zanarone.
Jens Prüfer
Jens Prüfer is Director of the Tilburg Law and Economics Center (TILEC), Professor of Economics, Governance, and Technology at Tilburg University, Professor in Economics at the University of East Anglia, and Deputy Director of the Centre for Competition Policy (CCP).
He joined the organizing team of the IOEA since the 2026 edition alongside Eric Brousseau, together with Simon Porcher and Giorgio Zanarone.
Giorgio Zanarone
Associate Professor at HEC Lausanne, the business school of the University of Lausanne, specializing in business strategy and the economics of institutions and organizations. He is also a Research Fellow at CEPR, and has served as Secretary and elected Director of Society for Institutional and Organizational Economics (SIOE), as well as Representative-at-Large of the Strategic Management Society.
He joined the organizing team of the IOEA since the 2026 edition alongside Eric Brousseau, together with Simon Porcher and Jens Prüfer.
IOEA Coordinators
As coordination and communication challenges are crucial for the organization of such an international network and regular set of events, IOEA is also critically depending upon the professionalism and personal involvement of those responsible for the organizational, administrative, and logistic coordination of the academy.
Seminar Chairs
Seminars chairs play a key role in the organization and the proper functioning of IOEA. During the spring session, they chair the daily seminars organized around the participants' presentation, discuss their paper or their research project and ensure the dynamism and the quality of the exchanges among the participants, and between them and the faculties lecturers and workshops organizers.
Before the conference, they collegially manage the selection process of participants and the constitution of seminars' group, thereby guaranteeing the quality of the academy. They are also active member of the IOEA network that organizes on a regular basis conferences and workshops, and manages cooperative research projects.
All members of this organization team hold a PhD. They either have academic positions or work as economist for regulatory authorities. Most of the time, they are themselves IOEA alumni.
