Isabelle Chatry

Isabelle Chatry is a Senior Policy Analyst in the OECD Centre for Entrepreneurship, SMEs, Regions and Cities. Her current work focuses on multi-level governance, decentralisation and subnational public finance. She is the co-author of “Asymmetric decentralisation: trends, challenges and policy implications” (2020), “Making Decentralisation Work: a handbook for Policy Makers” (2019), and “Multi-level governance reforms: overview of OECD country experiences” (2017). She also publishes the annual OECD statistical booklet “Subnational governments in OECD countries: key data.” She is the OECD coordinator of the OECD-UCLG World Observatory on Subnational Government Finance and Investment (SNG-WOFI) and has coordinated several multi-level governance studies including on Chile, Israel, and Bulgaria. Isabelle also has published numerous papers and articles on multi-level governance and finance.

Prior to joining the OECD, Isabelle worked at Dexia Crédit Local’s Research Department, Caisse des Dépôts and Crédit Local de France. Graduated from the French “Ecole Normale Supérieure of FontenaySaint Cloud” (ENS), Isabelle holds an "agrégation" in geography.