The Master in Behavioral Science and Public Policy trains students in a wide range of advanced techniques in the study of human behavior. Graduates of the program will accurately and rigorously analyze human populations, measuring their preferences, expectations, opinions, and behaviors with an understanding of thebiases that affect individual judgments and the collective phenomena that emerge from their interactions.
This master's program has been designed to respond to a new demand, and to allow its graduates to seize an increasing number of opportunities in Behavioral Science in today's world. It is part of an international academic trend that is driving the world’s most renowned universities to develop similar programs.
While focused on Behavioral Science in the broad sense – experimental psychology, cognitive science, behavioral ecology, cognitive anthropology – the program also borrows tools, theoretical reflections and inspiration from neighboring disciplines: sociology, economics, political science, and the philosophy of social science and data sciences.
This interdisciplinarity is indispensable to training individuals who can face today’s most pressing public policy challenges so many of which require engagement from distinct perspectives and with different tools.
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Semester 1
- (BEH603) Human Behavior and Ecology
- (DAT506) L'Enquête: Analyse des Données Avancée 1
- (ECO519A) Evidence-Based Decision-Making in Complex and Risky Environments
- (MAN501) Management et Leadership Publics
- (POL505) La Participation des Populations aux Politiques Publiques
- One elective to be chosen
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Semester 2
- (BEH501) Debating Workshops
- (BEH601) Behavioral Science Applied to Politics
- (DAT505) Experimental Psychology: Advanced Data Analysis 1
- (DAT507) Statistiques et Politiques Publiques
- (ECO509) Sustainable Development Policies
- One elective to be chosen
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Semester 3
- (BEH602) Behavioral Science Applied to Marketing and Communication
- (BEH603) Human Behavior and Ecology
- (DAT602) Computational Social Science
- (DAT603) Experimental Psychology: Advanced Data Analysis 2
- (RES607) Thematic Seminars in Behavioral and Social Sciences / Master's Thesis Preparation
- (RES803) Quantitative Research Methods for Social Science 5: Natural Language Processing
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Semestre 4
Youssef Errami
Management
Youssef Errami is a Professor of Practice at Mohammed VI Polytechnic University.
He was Director of the Institute of Government & Public Policy at the University of East London (UK) and General Director and Dean of ESC Pau Business School (France). His research focuses on managerial innovation and leadership in public and private contexts, as well as public policy management. He is the author of numerous publications in research journals,…
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Dominique Guillo
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Dominique Guillo is a Full Professor at Mohammed VI Polytechnic University.
He is professor of sociology and head of the research program Mind, Society and Public Policy of the Africa Institute for Research in Economics and Social Sciences (AIRESS). He is also senior research fellow at the french National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS).
Former student of the Ecole Normale Supérieure of Paris Saclay (Cachan), where he studied…
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Stéphane Mussard
Economics
Stéphane Mussard is an Affiliate Professor at Mohammed VI Polytechnic University.
He defended his PhD in econometrics in 2004, at the University of Montpellier, France. He then held positions at the University of Montpellier I and Perpignan (research and teaching assistant), at CEPS/INSTEAD Luxembourg (post-doc), then associate professor at the University of Montpellier I. He is a full professor of economics at the University of Nîmes (since…
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Emmanuel TROUCHE
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Emmanuel Trouche is an Assistant Professor at Mohammed VI Polytechnic University.
Within the Africa Institute for Research in Economics and Social Sciences (AIRESS), he deploys experimental methods to study the cognitive mechanisms underlying learning, reasoning, and decision-making. He is co-Principal Investigator of a research project called PASEM, which aims at creating and experimenting new methods for improving children’s mathematical and…
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Ouidade Sabri
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Ouidade Sabri is an Affiliate Professor at Mohammed VI Polytechnic University.
She is Professor of Marketing at IAE Paris-Sorbonne Business School as well as Director of its Executive Master in Digital Marketing & Business Development. Her research focuses on brand communication, sales promotion, consumer behavior, marketing performance and data science.
She is the author of four books on marketing, digital and data analysis and has…
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Zachary GARFIELD
Anthropology
Zachary Garfield is an Assistant Professor at Mohammed VI Polytechnic University.
He is an interdisciplinary behavioral scientist and evolutionary anthropologist. He co- directs The Omo Valley Research Project, a non-profit organization dedicated to social, biological, and health research. His academic journey was sparked by a profound experience of independent travel in Southeast Asia and volunteering on Japanese farms. This fueled his…
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Luc Savard
Economics
Luc Savard is a Full Professor at Mohammed VI Polytechnic University.
He received his PhD in Economics from the Paris School of Economics in 2006. Before joining UM6P, he was professor at the Department of Economics at the Université de Sherbrooke for over 15 years. He was co-founder and director of the Research Group in Economics and International Development (GREDI) and director of programs in economics from 2015 to 2019. Prior to his time…
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Nicolas Porot
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Nicolas Porot is an Assistant Professor at Mohammed VI Polytechnic University.
His research includes both experimental and non-experimental work in behavioral science. Currently, he is especially interested in how people form and change their beliefs, and in how beliefs spread in groups. He has worked on many topics in the study of cognition, including fake news, mechanisms of belief formation, evidence-resistance, delusions, biases in moral…
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Déborah PEREZ
Political Science
Déborah Perez is an Assistant Professor at Mohammed VI Polytechnic University.
She previously taught political science at the EHESS, Paris Dauphine University, and SciencesPo. Her research interests deal with political actors, parliaments, and regime change in the Maghreb. A former student from the École Normale Supérieure, she gained a PhD at Sciences-Po Aix-en-Provence.
Her PhD dissertation received a special mention from the GIS…
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Mounia Boucetta
Management
Mounia Boucetta is an Affiliate Professor at Mohammed VI Polytechnic University.
She has over two decades of experience in the Moroccan public administration, having held managerial and leadership roles and worked on the development of industrial and commercial policies in particular. She was Secretary of State to the Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation of Morocco from 2017 to 2019.
A graduate of the Mohammadia School…
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ABDELAZIZ CHAOUBI
Data Science
Abdelaziz Chaoubi is an Affiliate Professor at Mohammed VI Polytechnic University.
He was an Assistant Professor at the Ecole Normale Supérieure (ENS) of Casablanca (1982-1986), then a professor at the National Institute of Statistics and Applied Economics (INSAE) (September 1986 to September 2021). From 1992 to 1994, he was a teaching assistant in statistics at Laval University in Quebec, where he got his Ph.D. in statistics. He was…
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This Master trains new profiles, endowed with skills that are highly sought after on the job market today. Job opportunities include a manager or project manager in the collection and analysis of data collected from populations, in the public sector (administrations, ministries, local authorities) as well as in the private sector (offices studies, consulting firm, non-governmental organizations, associations, marketing agencies). The possible fields of application are numerous and varied: opinion polls and studies, in particular political, managerial evaluation of an organization, household surveys (consumption, employment, social and cultural practices), demographic surveys, training surveys and the dissemination of new ideas or convictions, study of the perceptions of target populations of public policies (for example in the field of social policies), regional planning or policies of the employment, education surveys, inclusiveness, participatory policies, gender issues and sustainable development and the environment.
In addition, the solid capacities acquired by the graduates of this Master in some academic disciplines (behavioral sciences, sociology, political science) associated with their original profile, allow students to pursue doctoral studies that are public policy oriented.