Cédric Durand

Cédric Durand (born 1975) is a French economist. He earned a degree from the Grenoble Institute of Political Studies and a doctorate from the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences. His doctoral thesis was supervised by Jacques Sapir, and he did postdoctoral work at the National Autonomous University of Mexico.

After teaching at Claude Bernard University Lyon 1 and Sorbonne Paris North University, he became a professor in the Department of History, Economics and Society (DHES) at the University of Geneva in 2020. His research focuses on globalization, financialization, and the transformations of contemporary capitalism. It is rooted in the tradition of Marxist political economy. Cédric Durand has also advocated for a cyber-socialist and ecological economy and politics, which he calls cyber-ecosocialism.

His recent work focuses on the transformation of capitalism into a kind of technofeudalism where a few very large corporations use their monopoly on data to control social activity and extract rent.

Political and intellectual engagement In 2011, while a member of the New Anticapitalist Party, Durand together with Razmig Keucheyan, published an opinion piece in Libération entitled "L'isolement du NPA" (The Isolation of the NPA), in which the authors encouraged the party “to engage in a constructive political confrontation with the other currents of the radical left.”

In 2023, he held the Chair of Economics at the Institut La Boétie, a think tank affiliated with La France Insoumise.

Durand has contributed articles to the journal Contretemps.