Christian Gollier

Research interests

Economics of Uncertainty
Finance
Insurance
Environmental economics

Biography

Christian Gollier's research spans the fields of economics of uncertainty, environmental economics, finance, consumption, insurance and cost-benefit analysis, with a particular interest in long-term sustainable effects. He was awarded an Advanced ERC Grant in 2009, and he has also held three delegations to the Institut Universitaire de France. He is a Fellow of the Econometric Society. During the academic year 2021-2022, he held a chair at the Collège de France. Christian Gollier has published more than 140 articles in international scientific journals, as well as 10 books on risk, including "The Economics of Risk and Time" (MIT Press), which won the "Paul A. Samuelson Award" (2001). In 2012, he published a book entitled "Pricing the Planet's Future" at Princeton University Press, which he presented at the "6th Arrow Lecture" at Columbia University. He is one of the authors of the 4th and 5th reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC, 2007 and 2013). In addition, he regularly advises governments on their public investments evaluation policies and the ecological transition. He has chaired the EAERE, the European Association of Environmental Economists. His recent books for the general public, "Le Climat après la fin du mois" (PUF 2019) and "Economie de l’(in)action climatique" (PUF 2025), deals with the importance of taking action in the face of climate change and have been a great success in France. He founded the Jean-Jacques Laffont / Toulouse School of Economics Foundation with Jean Tirole in 2007. He has been its director from 2009 to 2024 (with a hiatus in 2015-2016). From June 2023 to October 2025, he has been the first director of the "grand établissement TSE".