Denis Fougère is Senior Research Fellow at CNRS (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique), member of LIEPP (Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire d'Evaluation des Politiques Publiques) and of OSC (Observatoire Sociologique du Changement) at Sciences Po (Paris). He is also an associate professor at Sciences Po (Paris). His main fields are labor economics, microeconometrics, duration and transition models, discrete choice models, microeconometric evaluation of active labor programs and social policies. He has published in Econometrica, Review of Economic Studies, Review of Economics and Statistics, Economic Journal, European Economic Review, European Sociological Review, Journal of Public Economics, Journal of the European Economic Association, Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, Journal of Applied Econometrics, The Econometrics Journal, Journal of Population Economics, Labour Economics, Empirical Economics, Annales d'Economie et Statistique, and other journals. Denis Fougère is also Research Fellow at CEPR (London). He was Economic Advisor at the French Ministry of Education from 2005 to 2018. From 2012 to 2017, he was co-editor of the IZA Journal of Migration.Since 2017, he is co-editor of the IZA Journal of Labor Policy.

He joined IZA as a Research Fellow in January 2001.