Who I am and what I am doing (very briefly)

Michel Gensollen has been trained as an economist and an engineer in telecommunications (ENST Paris). From 1990 to 2000, he was Chief Economist at France Telecom, in charge of the Economic and Strategic Studies Department. He is currently working at the SES (Economics & Social sciences) department at TELECOM ParisTech. His recent publications focus on cultural economics, information economy, and the new business models triggered by the development of the Internet and ICT. He was in charge (2002-2004) of the project "Economics of Online Communities" (CNRS "Program on Information Society") and he was editor of the special issue "Virtual communities and online markets" (Revue d'Économie Politique, mars 2004).