Institut de la Méditerranée (IM) is pleased to announce that starting January 2017 Pr. Patricia AUGIER is the new President of the Scientific Committee of IM. Pr AUGIER was elected by the IM Board of Directors and succeeds Pr. Jean-Louis REIFFERS.

Pr AUGIER is already Coordinator and President of the Scientific Committee of FEMISE since September 2015 and Professor at AMU (Aix-Marseille Université) and member of AMSE (Aix-Marseille School of Economics). Her areas of expertise include issues of Development, International Trade and Firms productivity.

Institut de la Méditerranée warmly thanks Pr. REIFFERS for the scientific vision, commitment and for all the things he brought and helped achieve for IM during two decades. Being always motivated and interested by the development of the Euromed region, his experience, ideas and know-how will always be of great utility for IM.

We are also very pleased to entrust the scientific direction to Pr Patricia AUGIER who will bring new orientations for this new phase of IM.