Sylvie Matelly
Director, Institut Jacques Delors, Paris
Sylvie Matelly holds a Master’s degree in international economics, specializing in financial and commodity markets. In 2000, she earned her doctorate from Université Pierre Mendès France in Grenoble with a thesis on "The Economic Determinants of Military Spending." She also pursued studies in Barcelona and Montpellier. In 2001, she joined the French Institute for International and Foreign Affairs (IRIS) as a researcher specializing in defense economics, later becoming Research Director in 2008. In 2009, she joined the Ecole de Management Léonard de Vinci as a faculty member and later became Head of the "Economics, Finance, and International Relations" department. She left EMLV in 2016 to become Deputy Director of IRIS, and in 2023, she became Director of the Institut Jacques Delors. In 2003, she launched the "Economics and International Relations" Master’s program, now titled "Geoeconomics, Risk Management, and CSR," at IRIS-Sup, the IRIS school.
During 2001/2002, she worked with the Groupe Transition et Développement in Grenoble and the Institute for the Economy in Transition (Moscow) to establish a development agency in Kaliningrad as part of a European TACIS project. From 2009 to 2016, she was an associate professor at the Ecole de Management Léonard de Vinci in La Défense, where she led the Finance, Economics, Law, and International Relations Department from 2014 to 2016.
Her research and work sit at the intersection of economics and geopolitics, addressing topics such as industrial and defense policy, economic coercion (including export and investment controls, sanctions, and anti-corruption measures). Her most recent research focuses on the financing of defense companies in light of ESG and sustainable finance constraints. She also examines corporate geopolitical responsibility. She has authored numerous articles and three books: L'Europe peut-elle faire face à la mondialisation? (2015, published by Documentation Française), Argent sale: à qui profite le crime? (2018), Géopolitique de l'économie (2021), and L'économie, tout simplement (2023, published by Eyrolles).