Olivier Pilmis

Olivier Pilmis serves as a CNRS Junior Professor at Sciences Po's Centre for the Sociology of Organisations (CSO), where his research bridges economic sociology, labor studies, and professional sociology through investigations of uncertainty management and forecasting practices in economic contexts.

His academic training includes a PhD in Sociology from EHESS (2008) supervised by Pierre-Michel Menger, an Agrégation in Economic and Social Sciences (2003), a DEA in Sociology from EHESS (2002), and foundational studies at Sciences Po Paris (2001).

Pilmis examines how economic actors transform uncertainty into calculable risk through future-oriented discourses, focusing on the social production and legitimacy of forecasts. His methodology integrates qualitative techniques (archival research, interviews, ethnographic observation) with quantitative analysis to study macroeconomic governance, journalistic crisis response, and labor markets in creative industries.

Publications reveal consistent interdisciplinary engagement with economic sociology, demonstrating how forecasting practices operate across journalism, macroeconomics, and cultural labor markets while connecting to science and technology studies.

Scientific recognition includes:

• Young author prize (1st prize) from Sociologie du travail publications (2007)

As an educator, Pilmis taught Economic Sociology at École Polytechnique (2018-2020) and multiple courses in Sciences Po's Sociology Master's program (2014-2019), including Classics of Sociology and Producing Research. He co-led the CSO doctoral seminar (2015-2019) and served on French Sociology Association committees for Economic Sociology and Methods. His research received LIEPP funding for the "Infogouv" project (2017-2019) on macroeconomic governance dynamics.