Born 1944, in Paris, France
Citizenship :
Canadian and French
Academic career
Service to the scientific community
Distinctions
Journal editorships
Thesis supervisions
1963-67
Student at Ecole
Normale Supérieure
1967-1970
Research assistant
at CNRS
1970-2003
Professor at the
University of Paris-Dauphine
1989-94
President of the
University of Paris-Dauphine
2003-2011
Canada Research
Chair in Mathematical Economics, University
of
British Columbia
2003-2008
Director, the
Pacific Institute of Mathematical
Sciences (PIMS)
SERVICE TO THE SCIENTIFIC COMMUNITY
1991-94
President of the
Scientific Council of Ecole
Normale Supérieure
1991-1994
President of the
National Board for Professional Higher Education (IUP)
2001
Chair of the Review
Panel for Mathematical Education in French-speaking Belgian
universities
2003
Chair of the Review
Panel for Mathematical Research in Norwegian universities
2007-2011
Co-Chair of the
Scientific committee for the 2011
International Congress of
Industrial and Applied Mathematics (ICIAM)
2008-
Member of the
Forschungskuratorium
of the Austrian Academy of Sciences
2009-
Président du Conseil Scientifique de la Fondation du Risque
2010-
Member of the
Scienfic Advisory Board of the Toulouse School of
Economics
1978
Invited speaker at
the International Congress of Mathematicians
1983
Paul Langevin prize
of the Paris Academy of Sciences
1984
Jean
Rostand prize for my book “Mathematics and the Unexpected”
1992
d'Alembert prize for
my book “The broken dice“
1995
Honorary doctorate from
the University of British Columbia
(Canada)
1996
Honorary doctorate from
the Saint-Peterburg University of Economics and Finance
(Russia)
1996
Grand Prize of the
Belgian Academy of Sciences
1998
Foreign member, the
Norwegian Academy of Sciences
2001
Sara Lee Chair in
Economics, University of
Chicago
2007
Public lecture at
the International Congress of
Industrial and Applied Mathematics (ICIAM)
2008
Fellow of the Royal
Society of Canada
2009
Foreign member, the
Palestinian Academy for
Science and Technology
2009
Honorary degree from l'Ecole
Internationale des Sciences du Traitement de l'Information
2012
Foreign member, the Austrian
Academy of Sciences
2012
Honorary doctorate from the University
of Vienna (Austria)
1984-1990
Founder and Editor-in-Chief,
Annales de l'Institut Henri Poincaré, Seric C, Analyse Non Linéaire
2011-
Editor-in-Chief, Mathematics
and
Financial Economics
There are two types of thesis in France : the first one is equivalent to a PhD, and qualifies its holder for an assisant professorship, the second one requires several more years of work, qualifies its defender for a professorship
PhD thesis (thèse de 3ème cycle ou thèse)
Quetin (1973), Momal (1974), Lebourg (1975), Henri (1978), Bougeard (1978), Gaussens (1979), Azé (1980), Frenisy (1980), Blot (1981), Truc J.C. (1983), Truc M. (1983), Ollivry (1983), Albizatti (1983), Viterbo (1985), Brousseau (1985), Mathlouti (1986), Ranty (1987), Assem (1987), Saddek (1988), Daly (1989), Künzle (1990), Geoffard (1991), Ounaïes (1991), Romano (1992), Guérinet (1992), Daher (1993), Séré (1993), Bolle (1994), Burdeau (1994), Aloqeili (2000), Carlier (2001), Dia (2003), Basta (2003), Moreno (2008)
Lasry (1975),
Balasko (1977), Methlouti-Trad (1979), Gaussens (1984), Lassoued
(1987), Blot (1992), Mathlouti (1993), Viterbo (1989), Séré (1994),
Vieille (1998), Touzi (1999), Carlier (2003), Sant'Ambrogio (2010)