Marie-Anne Valfort is an Associate Professor of Economics at the Paris School of Economics (UMR PJSE) and University Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne, and a Labour Market Economist at the OECD, Directorate for Employment, Labour and Social Affairs.

She holds a DPhil (PhD) in Economics from Ecole Polytechnique, a graduate degree in Economics from Paris School of Economics and a graduate degree in Management from HEC Paris.

Her main research interests are in discriminations, especially in the labour market. Her contribution includes measuring discriminations, isolating their causes, evaluating their consequences and identifying efficient anti-discrimination policies. Since January 2017, Marie-Anne Valfort is a member of the Scientific Committee of the French DILCRAH (Délégation Interministérielle à la Lutte Contre le Racisme, l'Antisémitisme et la Haine anti-LGBT - Inter-ministerial delegation for the fight against racism, antisemitism and anti-LGBT hatred).

She joined IZA as a Research Fellow in March 2018.