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Yann Algan is the Dean of the HEC Centers and Institutes and Professor of Economics at HEC in Paris. His research focuses on the role of emotions, trust, and well-being within organizations and societies. In particular, he has written seminal papers on the causal impact of trust on economic growth, institutions, populism, and management. He also focuses on the future of work (innovative firm organization, IA and new skills, aspirations of new generations) and the evaluation of management, employment and educational policies. In 2010 he was awarded an ERC Starting Grant for his project "Trust". In 2015, he received a second ERC grant, a consolidator one, for the project "Sowell" on Social Preferences, Well-Being, and Policy". He was the former Dean and founder of the School of Public Affairs at Sciences Po Paris and Dean of programs at HEC.