Marie-Aude Laguna is a Maîtresse de Conférences in finance at Université Paris-Dauphine, where she is also the head of the master's asset management programme. Her current research focuses on wealth inequalities, particularly in relation to banking and family dynamics. Since completing her PhD, she has also studied industrial risks and the role of the media for companies and markets. In 2019, she was a fellow at the Risk Institute at The Ohio State University, where she was awarded a research grant for her work on supply-chain risk and labor law violations.