Jean Tirole

Jean Tirole

Professor of Economics, Toulouse 1 Capitole University

TSE & IAST Honorary Chairman

Current position

2019Honorary Chairman, Fondation Jean-Jacques Laffont-TSE
2019Honorary Chairman of the Executive Committee, Institute for Advanced Study in Toulouse (IAST)
2011Member of the Académie des Sciences Morales et Politiques
1999Member of the Conseil d'Analyse Économique of the French Prime Minister
1992Visiting Professor MIT
1990Scientific Director, IDEI then TSE-P

Former positions

2014 - 2019Member of the French Strategic Research Council
2011 - 2019Chairman of the Executive Committee, Institute for Advanced Study in Toulouse (IAST)
2009 - 2018Chairman of the Board of Directors, Toulouse School of Economics
2007 - 2009Director, Toulouse School of Economics
2006 - 2009Fellow of the Haut Conseil de la Sciences et de la Technologie
2001President, European Economic Association
1998President, Econometric Society
1995 - 2020Directeur d'Etudes cumulant, EHESS
1984 - 1991Professor of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
1981 - 1984Researcher; CERAS, École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées
1978 - 2021Ingénieur (en chef, général) des Ponts et Chaussées

Education

1981Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology
1978Engineer, École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées
1978Docteur de 3ème Cycle, Decision Mathematics, Paris IX - Dauphine
1976Engineer, École Polytechnique
1976Diplôme d'Étude Approfondie, Decision Mathematics, Paris IX -Dauphine

Grants and awards

2023Doctor Honoris Causa, Reggio de Calabria
2022Fellow, American Finance Association
2022Doctor Honoris Causa, VSE Prague University of Economics and Business
2022Doctor Honoris Causa, University of Dhaka
2020Chevalier dans l'ordre des Palmes Académiques
2018Doctor Honoris Causa, University of Bergamo
2016Fellow, Society for Economic Measurement
2016Doctor Honoris Causa, Imperial College London
2015Foreign Associate, United States National Academy of Sciences
2015Fellow, Finance Theory Group
2015Officier, Ordre National de la Légion d’Honneur
2015Doctor Honoris Causa, University Luiss, Rome
2015Doctor Honoris Causa, European University Institute
2014Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel
2014Erwin Plein Nemmers Prize in Economics
2013Stephen A. Ross Prize in Financial Economics
2013Honorary doctorate degree, Hitotsubashi University
2013Honorary doctorate degree, Université de Lausanne
2013Honorary Fellow of the Royal of Society of Edinburgh
2012Honorary doctorate degree, Athens University of Economics and Business
2012Honorary doctorate degree, University of Rome Tor Vergata
2012Grand Prix of the "Académie d'Occitanie"
2011ILB and EIF Award for the best paper in finance ("Leverage and the Central Banker's Put") written with Emmanuel Farhi
2011Member, Académie des Sciences morales et politiques
2011Honorary doctorate degree, University of Mannheim
2010European Research Council Grant
2010CME Group - Mathematical Sciences Research Institute Prize in Innovation Quantitative Applications
2010Claude Levi-Strauss Prize
2010Officier dans l’Ordre National du Mérite
2009Fellow of the Academie des Sciences, Inscriptions et Belles Lettres de Toulouse
2008(Inaugural) Frontiers of Knowledge Award of the BBVA Foundation
2008Cercle d'Oc Prize
2007Chevalier de la légion d'honneur
2007"Risques" - "Les Echos" Award
2007Honorary doctorate degree, London Business School
2007Honorary doctorate degree, HEC Montreal
2007Gold medal, CNRS
2007Gold medal, city of Toulouse
2004Institute of Scientific Information-Thomson Price Winner in Economics
2002Médaille d'argent, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
2002Lauréat du Prix Dargélos de l'Ecole Polytechnique
1999Distinguished Fellow Award, Industrial Organization Society
1998John von Neumann Award, Rajk Lazlo College for Advanced Studies, Budapest University
1997Public Utility Research Center Distinguished Service Award, University of Florida, Gainesville
1996Center for Economic Studies Prize, Munich
1993Foreign Honorary Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences
1993Foreign Honorary Member, American Economic Association
1993Yrjo Jahnsson prize of the European Economic Association
1989Doctorat Honoris Causa, Université Libre de Bruxelles
1988 - 1989John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship
1985 - 1987Sloan Fellowship