Julia ORNAF

Contact:

Courriel: Julia.OrnafSartiaux@unil.ch

Tel. +44 7 880 950 610

Living in London, UK

• MSc Political Philosophy, La Sorbonne, Paris IV, 2005 (graduated with honours)
• MBA INSEEC, Paris, 2005 (graduated with honours)
   

• Political philosophy: democracy, political ontology and foundation, citizenship, balance of powers, epistemology of law, cognitive function of institutions
• Economics: theory of the firm, Business ethics, political theory of the firm (stakeholder theory, CSR, Corporate Citizenship)
• Political sciences: International studies, Governance theory, nature of risk and methodology of processing, collective knowledge building process
  

Thesis topic: Analysis of the nature of the economic regulative bodies and the ontological impacts of their entrance in the global political governance, on democracy and value of legitimacy.

The nature of the firm is a tangled debate between economics, political sciences and philosophy. We conduct analysis of the economic regulative bodies, from those different points of view and try to make a synthesis, which would offer a contribution to the building of a new political paradigm. The thesis develops concepts of institutionalised institution and instituting institution, non-ergodic world and “processual” cognitive methodology applied to regulation and policy building.

We ground our researches on the contemporary political philosophy (Rawls, Habermas, Castoriadis, Ricoeur, Petit, etc.), in economics on theory of the firm and recent political theory of the firm and governance, on international studies (Keohane & Nye, Rosenau, Beck, Burton, North) and on epistemology that develops processual methodology (Whitehead, Latour, etc.), founded on a common regulative culture (Delmas Marty).

PROCEEDINGS OF COLLOQUIUM

1) Joint conference of the Association for Heterodox Economics, the International Initiative for Promoting Political Economy and the Association Française d'Economie Politique
Ornaf J., Political theory of the Firm and the new ontology of the Firm, Joint conference AHE, IIPPE, FAPE, Proceedings of the colloquium “Political economy and the outlook for capitalism”, July 2012.

2) RIODD 2012
Ornaf J. and Rambaud A., 2012, “From CSR to a genuine Political CSR: Corporations and global governance rethought through a reflexive, dialectical and dynamic model”, RIODD, Proceedings of the colloquium, Mai 2012.

3) Global Risk Forum, Davos, 2012
Ornaf. J., Rambaud A., Processual political methodology as a legitimate response to pluralism and uncertainty issues, Poster Presentation, GRF Davos, august 2012.
 

ARTICLES IN PROGRESS

First semester of 2012

1) Ornaf J., «The nature of the firm, through the evolution of the legal fiction».

2) Ornaf J., and Rambaud A., «From institutionalised economic institutions to genuine regulative bodies».

3) Ornaf J., «Political theory of the Firm and the new ontology of the Firm», Proceedings of the colloquium “Political economy and the outlook for capitalism”, July 2012: to be sent to referee journal after the colloquium.

Second semester of 2012

1) Ornaf J. and Rambaud A., «The processual social dialectic as the legitimate and cautious risk processing methodology».

2) Ornaf J., «The emergence of the instituting society: from Latour’s self-reflective social dialectic to Demas-Marty’s concept of an ordering pluralism».
 

BOOK

Ornaf J., 2013, La firme au cœur du nouveau paradigme politique global, collection Développement durable et innovation institutionnelle, Presses Universitaire de France, (planned with consent of editors, not on contract yet).