Thomas Breda is associate professor at the Paris School of Economics and full-time junior researcher at the National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS).

He received his BA and PhD in economics from the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) after studying at the Paris Ecole Normale Supérieure. Prior to joining the Paris School of Economics, he spent two years at the London School of Economics as a psotdoctoral fellow.

His research focuses primarily on employment relations, gender economics, and discriminations.

He joined IZA as a Research Fellow in April 2015.