Jean Tirole
Nobel Laureate in Economics; Chairman, Foundation JJ Laffont–Toulouse School of Economics (TSE)
Jean Tirole is Chairman of the Foundation JJ Laffont–Toulouse School of Economics (TSE) and Scientific Director of the Institute for Industrial Economics (IDEI), University of Toulouse Capitole. He also holds a visiting position at MIT and is affiliated with the Institute for Advanced Study in Toulouse (IAST), which he co-founded in 2011.
Before moving to Toulouse in 1991, Dr. Tirole was Professor of Economics at MIT. He has served as President of the Econometric Society (1998) and the European Economic Association (2001).
Dr. Tirole holds honorary doctorates from numerous institutions, including the Free University of Brussels, London Business School, HEC Montreal, University of Mannheim, Athens School of Business and Economics, University of Rome II, Hitotsubashi University, and Université de Lausanne. Among his many prizes and honors are: - Yrjö Jahnsson Prize (1993) – awarded biennially to the best European economist under 45 - Gold Medal of the CNRS (2007) – the second economist ever to receive this award - BBVA Frontiers of Knowledge Award in economics, finance, and management (2008) - CME-MSRI Prize and the Levi-Strauss Prize (2010) - Ross Prize (2013) - Nemmers Prize in Economics (2014) He is a Foreign Honorary Member of both the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Economic Association (1993). In 2011, he was elected to the French Académie des Sciences Morales et Politiques.
Dr. Tirole has delivered over 80 distinguished lectures and published nearly 200 articles in economics and finance, along with 11 books. He earned his PhD in Economics from MIT (1981), engineering degrees from École Polytechnique (1976) and École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées (1978), and a doctorate in decision mathematics from University Paris IX (1978).
