Biography
Current Positions:
- Honorary General Engineer of Mines
- Project Manager, Energies Foundation for Africa
- General Delegate, Mediterranean Solar Plan
- President of the Cercle des ingénieurs-économistes
- Honorary President and member of the Board of Directors of CEPII
- Professor, representative for France, Getulio Vargas Foundation, Rio de Janeiro
Previous Positions:
- Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Centre for Prospective Studies and International Information (CEPII)
- Director of Foresight, Director of the General Inspectorate, Director of International Relations, EDF; Advisor to the President, Réseau de transmission d’électricité (RTE)
- Deputy Director of Electronics and Information Technology Industries, Ministry of Industry
- Director of the Centre for Studies and Forecasting, Ministry of Industry
- President of the Institute of the History of Industry
- Associate Professor at the University of Paris 2-Panthéon Assas, at the University of Paris-Dauphine
Formation:
- Master in Public Policy, Harvard University, Kennedy School of Government
- Engineer from the Ecole des Mines, Paris
- Graduate of the Institut d’Etudes Politiques, Paris
- Master of Science, University of Paris VI
- Graduated from Ecole Polytechnique, Paris
Key Publications:
The Great Industrial Threat (1976), French Industrial Policy (1984), End of the World (1987),
Public Services Question d’Avenir (1995), Psychoanalysis of Anti-Liberalism (2007)
Key areas of expertise:
Regulation, international economics, industrial policy, energy