Cecilia García-Peñalosa is Professor of Economics at the Aix-Marseille School of Economics and holds the chair Gender, Growth and Development at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales. She obtained her PhD in Economics from Oxford University, is associate editor of the Journal of Economic Inequality, and has been a member of the Conseil d'Analyse Economique, an independent advisory group that reports to the French Prime Minister.