Chairman, Toulouse School of Economics (University of Toulouse); Scientific Director, Institut d'Economie Industrielle. Former President: Econometric Society; European Economic Association. Foreign Honorary Member: American Academy of Arts and Sciences; American Economic Association. Former Professor and current Visiting Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Chairman of the Executive Committee, Institute for Advanced Study in Toulouse (IAST). Lecturer. Author or co-author of some 20 articles on economics and finance; author of 11 books. Recipient of awards and honours, including: Laureate, 2014 Nobel prize in Economics; Honorary Doctorate, Université de Lausanne, Hitotsubashi University, University of Rome 2, Athens School of Business and Economics, University of Mannheim, HEC Montreal, London Business School, Free University in Brussels. Interests: theoretical and practical application of game theory and information theory to industrial organization and regulation; finance, macroeconomics, international finance and economics and psychology.
