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Yves Zenou is a professor of economics and the Richard Snape Chair in Business and Economics at the department of economics of Monash University (Melbourne, Australia). Yves Zenou is also affiliated to the Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN, Stockholm), a research fellow at the Center for Economic Policy Research (CEPR, London), a research fellow at the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA, Bonn), and a research fellow at the Rockwool Foundation Berlin Institute for the Economy and the Future of Work (RFBerlin). He is also a visiting professor at the University of Southampton and Stockholm University.

He is a Fellow of the Econometric Society, Foreign Member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, SAET Economic Theory Fellow, Fellow of the Spatial Econometrics Association, Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia, Fellow of the Regional Science Association International and received the 2018 Dean's Award for Excellence in Research at Monash University.

He is currently an Advisory Editor at Games and Economic Behavior, a member of the editorial board of the Australian Economic Papers, and an Associate Editor at The Economic Journal, Regional Science and Urban Economics, The Scandinavian Journal of Economics, IZA Journal of Migration, and Annals of Economics and Statistics. He was previously the Editor of Regional Science and Urban Economics (2007-2017) and an Associate Editor at the Journal of the European Economic Association (2012-2017), the Journal of Urban Economics (2004-2018) and the Journal of Public Economic Theory (2010-2020).

His research spans network economics, urban and spatial economics, labor, development, and political economy, with additional interests in education, crime, industrial organization, gender, culture, and discrimination. His work has been published in leading journals such as the American Economic Review, Econometrica, Journal of Political Economy, and the Review of Economic Studies, among others. 

RECENT NEWS: 

From 10 to 13 September 2025, I am organizing a Summer School on Networks, featuring lectures by Matt O. Jackson, Sanjeev Goyal, and myself. 

The event also includes a two-day conference on network economics. Further details are available on the website. 

I joined the editorial board of The Economic Journal as an Associate Editor, starting on October 21, 2024.

I'm the committee co-chair of the Econometric Society Australasia Meeting that will be held at Monash University in December 4-6, 2024. The website can be found here.

In November 2023, I was awarded an Australian Research Council Discovery Project grant on “New Methods in Network Economics to Study Environment-Friendly Behaviours. 

I have  been elected (Jan. 2023) Foreign Member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (class for social sciences). Election (Swedish) and Monash story (English).

A recent interview (June 2024) on my research on social networks in the beautiful city of Marseilles: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qOmZEFRJGxA&authuser=0

My video on Social Inequality: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6hOp08Gx3c#inequality%20#economics

Here is the video for the 2018 Dean's Award for Excellence in Research: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yWWaQ61qF10&list=PLVhjskAajvy-ae2zi7KOr8dWXEI_FO1b2&index=7&t=0s

My research on key players in networks: https://lens.monash.edu/2019/08/06/1375976/network-science-identifying-key-players-in-collective-dynamics

Here is a description of my research in an accessible format: http://www.bbc.com/storyworks/future/masters-of-change/social-networks-and-human-behaviour?