Claude Le Pen
{{Short description|French economist (1948–2020)}}
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| birth_date = 17 February 1948
| birth_place = Madagascar
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| nationality = French
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| education = HEC Paris
| occupation = Economist
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Claude Le Pen (17 February 1948 – 6 April 2020) was a French economist.{{cite book|url=https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb122021685.public|title=Le Pen, Claude (1948-....)|work=Catalogue BnF|language=French}} He specialized in health economics.{{cite web|url=https://www.lemonde.fr/idees/article/2020/03/30/claude-le-pen-en-2007-la-france-avait-su-mettre-au-point-un-dispositif-de-protection-tres-ambitieux-contre-des-pandemies_6034911_3232.html|title=Coronavirus : " En 2007, la France avait su mettre au point un dispositif de protection très ambitieux contre des pandémies "|date=30 March 2020|work=Le Monde|language=French}}
Biography
Le Pen earned a doctorate in economics in 1980.{{cite thesis|url=http://www.sudoc.abes.fr/cbs/xslt/DB=2.1//SRCH?IKT=12&TRM=041066766&COOKIE=U10178,Klecteurweb,D2.1,E44300cb3-15,I250,B341720009+,SY,QDEF,A%5C9008+1,,J,H2-26,,29,,34,,39,,44,,49-50,,53-78,,80-87,NLECTEUR+PSI,R172.127.21.43,FN|title=Les Fondements Theoriques de l'Analyse Economique des Institutions a But Non Lucratif|work=SUDOC|year=1980 |language=French|last1=Le Pen |first1=Claude |last2=Brochier |first2=Hubert }} He was a professor first at University of Rennes from 1981 to 1984, then at the Paris Dauphine University.
A graduate of HEC Paris, Le Pen held a doctorate in the history and epidemiology of economic thought and a doctorate of economics. He was an associate of the Faculté des sciences économiques.
Claude Le Pen died on 6 April 2020 at the age of 72 following a long illness.{{cite web|url=https://www.apmnews.com/story.php?objet=349620|title=L'économiste de la santé Claude Le Pen est mort|date=7 April 2020|work=APM News|language=French}}
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