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Institutions supported by the AXA Research Fund

Latest fundings awarded by the Fund are :

Toulouse Sciences Economiques (TSE) - Fondation Jean-Jacques Laffont

A 3 M€ contribution to the global capital endowment, received by TSE from private partners

Institut des Hautes Etudes Scientifiques (IHES)

Endowment of 3 M€ for the creation of an AXA permanent Chair of Mathematics, whose holder is Maxim Kontsevich

Université Paris Descartes

A 1,250 M€ funding for the creation of a non-permanent Chair of research on « systems approach to individual differences on longevity» under the supervision of Profs. François Taddei, Thomas Kirkwood and Linda Partridge

London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)

Creation of a 3 years Research Program called «AXA Research Programme on Risk Management and Regulation of Financial Institutions» directed by Prof. David Webb

Institute of Meteorology of Berlin

Donation of €300 000 to a project on the impact of Climate Change on large-scale European floodings

Queen's University of Belfast

donation of € 350 000 to a project on the impacts and dynamics of Marine Aliens in the context of climate change under the supervision of Prof. Christine Maggs

Paris School of Economics (PSE)

Donation of 200 000 € to the projet « The economics and psychology of risk taking, impatience and financial decisions : confronting survey, experimental and insurance data » under the supervision of Prof. Jean-Marc Tallon

Institut d'Anàlisi Econòmica, Barcelona

donation of € 100 000 to a project dedicated to Assessing the Risk of Civil conflicts, under the supervision of Prof. Joan Esteban

EDHEC Business School, Lille

donation of €150 000 to a project covering a Structural Approach on Inflation and Term Structure, under the supervision of Stéphane Grégoir

28 post-doctoral fellowships

donation of € 60 000 each

30 PhD fellowships

donation of € 120 000 each