Annick Laruelle is a Belgian economist who works as a professor in the faculty of economics and business at the University of the Basque Country in Spain. Her research involves social choice, game theory, and voting systems.^[1] Beyond her main research efforts in economics and social science, she has also applied game theory to model the competition between cells in cancer.^[2]

Laruelle earned a civil engineering degree in applied mathematics from the Université catholique de Louvain in 1991. She continued at the same university for a Ph.D. in economics, completed in 1998.^[1][3][4]

After postdoctoral research at the University of Alicante from 1998 to 2000, and at the University of the Basque Country from 2000 to 2001, she worked as a Ramón y Cajal research fellow at the University of Alicante from 2001 to 2005, and as a professor of economics at the University of Caen Normandy in France from 2005 to 2008.^[3][4] Since 2008 she has been IKERBASQUE research professor of economic analysis at the University of the Basque Country.^[4]

Laruelle is the coauthor, with Federico Valenciano, of the monograph Voting and Collective Decision-Making: Bargaining and Power (Cambridge University Press, 2008).^[5]