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Christian Gollier
TSE Research Faculty
UT1 Capitole
Professor of Economics, Toulouse 1 Capitole University
Contact
E-mail : see the e-mail
Tel : +33 (0)5 61 12 86 30
Office : MS 212
Assistant
Maryline Fautrier
E-mail : see the e-mail
Tel : + (33) 5 61 12 86 73
Office : MF 405
Research interests
Economics of Uncertainty
Finance
Insurance
Environmental economics
Biography
Alongside Jean Tirole, Christian Gollier created Toulouse School of Economics, one of the best departments of economics worldwide. He subsequently served there as Deputy Director (2007- 2009) and then Director (2009-2015). He has developed in-depth contacts and research partnerships with various industries in France and around the world, in particular with insurance companies, banks and the energy sector. His current fields of interest extend from Decision Theory under Uncertainty to Environmental Economics through Finance, Investment, Consumption Theory, Insurance Economics and Cost-Benefit Analysis, with a special interest for long term (sustainable) effects.Christian Gollier has published over 100 articles in top-tier economic journals. He has also published 7 books on risk including “The Economics of Risk and Time”, MIT Press, winner of the 2001 Paul A. Samuelson Award. In October 2012, Princeton UP has published his book entitled "Pricing the Planet's Future: The Economics of Discounting in an Uncertain World".
Current position
| 2016 | Co-editor of the Journal of Risk and Insurance |
| 2011 | Advisor for la Cour des Comptes on nuclear costs |
| 2007 | Member of the GIEC, the advisers group who received the 2007 Peace Nobel Prize |
| 2005 | Chairman of the Scientific Council of the Observatoire de l'Epargne Européenne |
| Professor of Economics, Toulouse 1 Capitole University |
Former positions
| 2015 - 2016 | Visiting professor, Columbia University, New York |
| 2009 - 2015 | Director of Toulouse School of Economics |
| 2007 - 2009 | Director of the Laboratoire d'Economie des Ressources Naturelles |
| 2006 | Member of the Jury d'agrégation de sciences économiques |
| 2004 | Vice scientific director at CNRS, in charge of environment in social science |
Education
| Ph.D. in economics (Louvain) | |
| Engineer in applied math |
Grants and awards
| 2015 | Awarded Chevalier de la Legion d'Honneur. |
| 2015 | Elected best teacher of the Toulouse School of Economics (L3) |
| 2013 | Prize of the Foundation Edouard Bonnefous |
| 2012 | Fellow of the Econometric Society |
| 2012 | Member of Academia Europaea |
| 2011 | Erik Kempe Award |
| 2010 | One of the leading authors of the Fifth IPCC Assessment Report |
| January 2009 | Member of the Economic Council for Durable Development |
| 2009 | Management Science Meritorious Award |
| 2009 - 2013 | Senior Fellow, Institut Universitaire de France |
| December 2008 | European Research Council Grant |
| 2008 | Kulp-Wright Book Award 2008 of the American Risk and Insurance Association for "Competitive Failures: Theory and Policy Implications", P.-A. Chiappori and C. Gollier eds, June 2006, MIT Press |
| 2007 | Kulp Wright Book Award for an outstanding original contribution to the literature of risk management and insurance |
| 2005 | Prize of the best paper "Optimal Portfolio Management for Individual Pensions Plans" presented at the First World Risk and Insurance Economics Conference, Salt Lake City |
| 2003 | Kulp Wright Book Award for The Economics of Risk and Time |
| 2001 | Paul A. Samuelson Award |
| 1997 - 2002 | Junior Fellow of the Institut Universitaire de France |
| Winner of the following awards: "Royale Belge"(1988), "Ernst Meyer"(1989) and "Robert C. Witt (1995, 2002) |