Rida Laraki

Rida Laraki

Title
Full Professor at Université Mohammed VI Polytechnique (UM6P), Director of the Moroccan Center for Game Theory

Rida Laraki

Title
Full Professor at Université Mohammed VI Polytechnique (UM6P), Director of the Moroccan Center for Game Theory
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Rida Laraki is a Moroccan-French mathematician whose research spans game theory, social choice, optimization, and learning. He graduated from the École Polytechnique in Paris in 1996 and earned a PhD in mathematics from the Université Pierre et Marie Curie (now Sorbonne Université) in 2000. He began his career at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) in 2001 and served as Director of Research at Université Paris Dauphine–PSL from 2013 to 2024. He was also a part-time professor at the École Polytechnique (2006–2017) and at the University of Liverpool (2017–2024). In 2024, he joined Mohammed VI Polytechnic University (UM6P) in Morocco, where he founded and now leads the Moroccan Center for Game Theory. He is best known for co-developing, with Michel Balinski, the “majority judgment” voting method, presented in their book Majority Judgment: Measuring, Ranking, and Electing published by MIT Press in 2011.