Patrick Legros studied in France and in the US and started his career at Cornell University. He is currently full professor of economics at the Université libre de Bruxelles in Belgium and a fellow of its research center ECARES as well as a fellow of CEPR. His research interests span industrial organization, the theory of organizations as well as the design of education policies. He has been granted an ERC Advanced grant for developing an “Organizational Industrial Organization”. He is currently the managing editor of the Journal of Industrial Economics and a member of the European Advisory Group on Competition Policy at the European Commission.