Raouf Boucekkine is a BelgianâÂÂAlgerian mathematical economist and professor at the Aix-Marseille School of Economics, Aix-Marseille University. His research focuses on economic growth, environmental economics, economic epidemiology, and dynamic macroeconomic modeling, including contributions to vintage capital theory and spatial growth models.
After completing undergraduate studies in mathematics, Boucekkine pursued studies in statistics and economics at the ÃÂcole nationale de la statistique et de l'administration économique (ENSAE), Paris, graduating in 1990. In the same year, he earned a Master of Arts in Economics from the ÃÂcole des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS), Paris. He received his PhD in Economics from Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University in 1993.
Boucekkine began his academic career at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, where he was appointed assistant professor in 1993 and promoted to associate professor in 1997. In 1998, he joined the Université catholique de Louvain (UCLouvain), first as Associate Professor and later as Professor (Professeur ordinaire). During his tenure at UCLouvain, he was affiliated with the Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE) and the Institut de Recherches Economiques et Sociales (IRES). He also served as Director of the doctoral program in economics from 2000 to 2005.
He subsequently joined the Aix-Marseille School of Economics at Aix-Marseille University, where he holds a professorship. Between 2021 and 2024, he was Full Professor at ESC Rennes School of Business, serving as Associate Dean for Research and founding director of the Centre for Unframed Thinking (CUT).
Boucekkine has served as Associate Editor of several academic journals, including Economic Theory, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, Macroeconomic Dynamics, Annals of Economics and Statistics, and Journal of Demographic Economics.
Boucekkine was elected a Fellow of the Econometric Society in 2020 and an Economic Theory Fellow of the Society for the Advancement of Economic Theory in 2025. He served as a Senior Fellow of the Institut Universitaire de France from 2014 to 2019 and was later named an Honorary Senior Fellow. In 2025, he was a Fellow of the Institute of Advanced Study, Durham University.