Delphine LAUTIER is professor of finance at the University Paris-Dauphine and attached to DRM-Finance (UMR CNRS 7088). She is part of the scientific and steering committees for the Chair Finance and Sustainable Development   member of the FIME orientation committee. She is responsible, with Bertrand Villeneuve and Pierre Louis Lions, of the research initiative Modeling Agricultural TransitionS (MATS). She is also in charge of the Scientific Council of the Autorité des Marchés Financiers (AMF).

Her research focuses on speculation. She has developed equilibrium models to explain the relations between the derivatives and their underlying assets. She also develops new methodologies inspired by the graph-theory and statistical physics, and applies them to the analysis of systemic risk. Her works are of interest to regulatory authorities, to the financial sector, and to the companies that produce, sell or use energy commodities. Since 2005, she has advised, several times, French and European regulators on commodity markets, speculation, and the design of regulatory policies.