Annie Tubadji

Annie Tubadji is a cultural and regional economist. She studies the effect of cultural bias in economic choice. She has pioneered the Culture Based Development (CBD) paradigm. This is a paradigm in the field of New Cultural Economics, that precisely quantifies and theoretically models the complex dynamic impact of the cultural context on value perception in individual and group decisions.

The CBD Hypothesis was awarded by the Association for Institutional Thought (AFIT), at the Western Social Science Association meeting, Reno, Nevada, 2010. Relatedly, Annie was awarded the G.L.S. Shackle Scholar at Cambridge University in 2015-2016. In 2021, the Learned Society of Wales awarded Annie with the Dillwyn Medal for CBD's contribution to the study of culture, inequality and discrimination. Her work was featured by the Center for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) and VOX.EU. Annie’s current research interests focus on altruism, inequality, polarization and digital inclusion.

Annie received her PhD in labour and regional cultural economics from Regensburg University, Germany. She held academic roles in the University of Bologna (Italy), University of West of England (UK); University of the Aegean (Greece) and the Institute for Employment Research (IAB) (Germany). She was the Cluster Leader for Microeconomics at the Bristol Centre for Economics and Finance (BCEF) and the organizer of the BCEF Economic Research Seminar Series. She was a consultant/project evaluator for the OECD, the EC Joint Research Centre (JRC) and the European Commission. Annie worked also for UNDP, UNICEF and the State Agency for Analysis and Planning, Ministry of Finance, Bulgaria.

Areas of expertise:

• New Cultural Economics (NCE) and Narrative Economics
• cultural capital, religion, race, diversity and discrimination
• regional productivity, migration, innovation and growth
• happiness and wellbeing,
• digital inclusion, artificial intelligence