Landemore, Hélène (1976-....)

Hélène Landemore is Jon Elster’s research assistant at the Collège de France. A graduate of the Ecole Normale Supérieure and Sciences-Po, she recently completed a dissertation on collective intelligence applied to the justification of democracy (Harvard University 2007).

She is the author of a monography in French on David Hume (Hume: Probabilité et Choix Raisonnable, Paris, PUF, 2004) and two articles in English (on rational choice theory and on animal rights). She will be a post-doctoral fellow at Brown University in the Fall of 2008.