CURRICULUM VITAE

update October 2009

Personal

Born July 9, 1954, Arras (62) Home: phone 33-4 91 21 91 84
Married with one child
Citizenship: French

Degrees

University of Rennes1, "Master in Economics " cum laudae, 1975.
University of Rennes 1, "State Doctorate in Economics " cum laudae,1986
"Economic Theory of the Measurement of Inequality". Supervisor : Prof. Alan Kirman,

Members of the Committee : Prof. Antony Atkinson, Prof. François Bourguignon,

Prof. Louis Gevers .
"Agregation", 1988.

Academic Position

1976 - 1977: Research Assistant, CNRS.
1977 - 1980: Fellowship, University of Rennes 1.
1980 - 1981: Military Service as a scientist.
1981 - 1988: Assistant Professor, University of Rennes 1.
1988 - 1991: Professor of Economics, University of Rennes 1.
1991 - 2002: Professor of Economics, University of Cergy - Pontoise.
2002 -        : Research Director, EHESS, at the location of Marseille.

Research Area

Income distribution, inequality measurement, redistribution, voting, public economics. economics of higher education, taxation, housing economics, public economics.

Professional Organizational Service

Chairman of the Economic Department of Cergy-Pontoise, 1991-1994.
Vice-President of the University of Cergy-Pontoise in charge of research, 1996-1999.
Manager the research center THEMA, 1993 – 2003.
Scientific Director of IDEP (Institute of Public Economics), 2003-2005

Director of IDEP, 2005-
Responsible of the Chair in Public Economics and Sustainable Development of the University of Marseille (U2) 2009-

Scientific Adviser of the Council of Strategic Analysis (Paris) 2007-
Member of the Economic Council of Sustainable Development (Paris) 2009-

Member of the Circle of Economists 2009-


Editorial service

Journal of Economic Inequality, 2002-
Économie Publique/Public Economics, Associate Editor 1998-2003, Editor in
Chief 2003-
Journal of Public Economic Theory, 2003-
Annales d’Économie et de Statistiques, Editor, 2005-

Member of scientific committee of International Conferences or Congress

ESEM (Econometric Society European Meeting ), Munich, september 1988.
ESEM, Berlin, september1998.
Conference in honour of Professor Louis Gevers (Université de Namur 1- 3 july 1999)
World Congress of the International Economic Association, Buenos Aires, August 1999.
PET 02 (Public Economic Theory), Paris, July 2002.
PET 06 Hanoi, August 2006.
PET 07 Nashville, July 2007

Conferences Organized

"Living standards, Inequality and Taxation Université de Cergy-Pontoise", 10 mars 1999.
« Inequalities, Theory, Measure, and Policy », Université de Cergy-Pontoise, 23-25 Novembre 2000 (with Patrick Moyes).
Main Conference Adres 2004 and LAGV 2004 “Health, Insurance and Equity” (with Nicolas Gravel and Lise Rochaix).
PET 05 (Public Economic Theory), Marseille, June 2005 (with Nicolas Gravel and Fred Rychen).
“Networks, Agregation and Markets” in honour of Alan Kirman, June 2005. (with Alessandra Casella and Sylvie Thoron).

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