Gerard Debreu
Curriculum Vitae
| Born: | July 4, 1921, Calais, France |
| Civil Status: | Married (to Françoise Bled, June 1945), two daughters, Chantal and Florence |
| Education | |
| 1941-44 | École Normale Supérieure, Paris, France |
| 1956 | D.Sc., Université de Paris, France |
| Academic appointments | |
| 1946 | Agrégé de l’Université, Paris, France |
| 1946-48 | Research Associate of the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris, France |
| 1950-55 (June) | Research Associate of the Cowles Commission for Research in Economics, University of Chicago |
| 1955-61 | Associate Professor of Economics, Cowles Foundation for Research in Economics, Yale University |
| 1961 (Fall) | Visiting Professor of Economics, Cowles Foundation for Research in Economics, Yale University |
| 1962 (January) | Professor of Economics (and Mathematics since July 1975), University of California, Berkeley |
| 1971-72 (Fall-Winter) | Visiting Professor, Center for Operations Research and Econometrics, University of Louvain, Belgium |
| 1973 (June-July) | Visiting Professor, University of Canterbury , Christchurch, New Zealand |
| 1973-74 | Professor, Miller Institute for Basic Research in Science of the University of California, Berkeley |
| 1976 (Fall) | Visiting Professor, Cowles Foundation for Research in Economics, Yale University |
| Nonacademic offices | |
| 1953 (Summer-Fall) | Électricité de France, Paris, France |
| 1969-71 | Vice President and President of the Econometric Society |
| Honors and fellowships | |
| 1948-50 | Rockefeller Fellow (USA-Sweden-Norway) |
| 1960-61 | Fellow of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford, California, USA |
| 1968-69 | Guggenheim Fellow-Visiting Professor, Center for Operations Research and Econometrics, University of Louvain, Belgium |
| 1969 (June-July) | Erskine Fellow, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand |
| 1970 | Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences |
| 1972 (Spring) | Overseas Fellow, Churchill College, Cambridge, England |
| 1976 (July) | Chevalier de la Légion d’Honneur |
| 1977 (Winter-Spring) | Senior U.S. Scientist Award of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, University of Bonn, Germany |
| 1977 | Member, National Academy of Sciences of USA |
| 1982 | Distinguished Fellow of the American Economic Association |
| Honorary degrees | |
| 1977 (April) | Dr. rer. pol. h.c., University of Bonn |
| 1980 (October) | Docteur en Sciences Économiques h.c., Université de Lausanne |
| 1981 (June) | Doctor of Science h.c., Northwestern University |
| 1983 (June) | Docteur h.c. de l’Université des Sciences Sociales de Toulouse |
| Other activities | |
| 1944-45 | French Army (North Africa-Germany) |
| 1975 (July) | U.S. Citizen |
This CV was written at the time of the award and later published in the book series Les Prix Nobel/Nobel Lectures. The information is sometimes updated with an addendum submitted by the Laureate. To cite this document, always state the source as shown above.
Addendum, December 1999
| 1983 | The Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel |
| 1984 (January) | Commandeur de l’Ordre National du Mérite |
| 1984 | Member of the American Philosophical Society |
| 1984 | Foreign Associate of the French Academy of Sciences |
| 1984 | Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science |
| 1984-85 | Faculty Research Lecturer, University of California at Berkeley |
| 1985 | University Professor, University of California |
| 1986 (July) | Class of 1958 Chair, University of California at Berkeley |
| 1987 (May) | Doctor of Social Science h.c., Yale University |
| 1987 (June) | Erskine fellow, University of Canterbury, Christchurch (New Zealand) |
| 1988 (April) | Docteur h. c.de l’Université de Bordeaux I |
| 1988 (April-June) | Visiting Professor, Center for Operations Research and Econometrics, University of Louvain-la- Neuve (Belgium) |
| 1990 | President of the American Economic Association |
| 1993 (December) | Officier de la Légion d’Honneur |
| 1997 (October) | Docteur en Economie h.c. Université Keio |
| 1998-2000 | Chaire Blaise Pascal, Université Paris I, CERMSEM |
Gerard Debreu died on December 31, 2004.
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