Marc Ivaldi is Emeritus Professor of Economics at the Toulouse School of Economics (TSE) and at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), Research Fellow at the Center for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), at CESIfo and at the Institute for Sustainable Aviation (ISA). He has served as President of the French Association of Transport Economics (AFET), as President of the International Transport Economics Association (ITEA) and as a member of the Economic Advisory Group on Competition Policy at the Directorate General for Competition.

He is an expert in the use of empirical and quantitative methods for competition and regulation policy and has advised firms as well as competition and regulatory authorities on a wide range of issues in competition economics. Much of his work has been devoted to the analysis of network including transport service industries, energy, telecommunications, banking, and information technologies. He is a member of editorial boards of Economics of Transportation and Review of Network Economics. He is a frequent speaker at leading conferences and academic forums around the world. Professor Ivaldi is also the author of books and has contributed to many others. He is a referee for several of the world’s most prestigious academic journals in economics and has had dozens of his own articles published.

He holds a PhD in Economics of the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia) and a PhD in Economics of the Université des Sciences Sociales of Toulouse.