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Thierry de Montbrial

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{{Short description|French economist}}

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| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1943|3|3|df=y}}

| birth_place = Paris, France

| occupation = Founder and executive chairman of the Institut français des relations internationales, founder and chairman of the World Policy Conference

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| spouse = {{marriage|Marie-Christine de Montbrial|1967}}

| children = Thibault de Montbrial, Alexandra Pilleux-de Montbrial

| alma_mater = Ecole Polytechnique, Corps des Mines, University of California, Berkeley

| website = {{URL|http://www.thierrydemontbrial.com/en/}}

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Thierry de Montbrial ({{IPA|fr|tjɛʁi də mɔ̃bʁijal}}; born 3 March 1943) is the executive chairman of the French Institute of International Relations (Ifri), which he founded in 1979.{{Cite web|url=http://www.ifri.org/fr/a-propos/missions|title=Les missions de l'Ifri|website=www.ifri.org|access-date=27 September 2016}} He is also the founder and chairman of the World Policy Conference (WPC), which he created in 2008.{{Cite web|url=https://www.worldpolicyconference.com/the-world-policy-conference/|title=World Policy Conference » The World Policy Conference|website=www.worldpolicyconference.com|access-date=27 September 2016}} He has been a member of the French Academy of Moral and Political Sciences since 1992.{{Cite web|url=http://www.asmp.fr/fiches_academiciens/MONTBRIAL.HTM|title=ASMP - Thierry de Montbrial|website=www.asmp.fr|access-date=27 September 2016}} He is an honorary member of numerous foreign academies.

Biography

Montbrial is the son of François, inspector-general of the Bank of France and Monique Lecuyer-Corthis. He married Marie-Christine de Montbrial (née Balling) in 1967, who is a movie producer (StarDance Pictures) and daughter of Charles Balling (born in 1912; École Polytechnique in 1935). He is the father of Thibault de Montbrial, lawyer and of Alexandra Pilleux-de Montbrial.

= Education =

Montbrial graduated from the École Polytechnique (1963) and from the École des Mines (1969) as a general engineer.{{Cite web|url=http://www.thierrydemontbrial.com/en/biographie-detaillee/|title=Biography {{!}} Thierry de Montbrial|website=www.thierrydemontbrial.com|access-date=27 September 2016}} He received his doctorate in Economics from the University of California, Berkeley in the United States. He wrote his doctoral thesis at Berkeley on the time dimension in the economic theory of general equilibrium, directed by the professor Gérard Debreu (Nobel Prize of Economy, 1983).

= Career =

As a Corps des Mines engineer, de Montbrial chaired the department of Economics of the École Polytechnique between 1974 and 1992. He was a professor at the Ecole Polytechnique (1973-2008) and also chaired the department of Applied Economics and International Relations at the Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers (CNAM) between 1995 and 2008. Since then, he has been a Professor Emeritus at the Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers.{{Cite news|url=http://culture.cnam.fr/medias-cnam/le-systeme-international-aujourd-hui-380672.kjsp|title=Le système international aujourd'hui|newspaper=Culture |language=fr-FR|access-date=27 September 2016}}

In 1973, Michel Jobert, then Minister for Foreign Affairs of France, put him in charge of setting up the Center of Analysis and Prevision (CAP) for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He then became the first Head Director of the Policy Planning Staff until 1979, prior to Jean-Louis Gergorin.{{cite web|url=http://www.ifri.org/front?id=ifri/equipe/les_chercheurs_1031843864711/publi_P_cv_montbrial_1032367545881|title=CV sur le site www.thierrydemontbrial.com et le site de l'IFRI|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091010013729/http://www.ifri.org/front?id=ifri%2Fequipe%2Fles_chercheurs_1031843864711%2Fpubli_P_cv_montbrial_1032367545881|archive-date=10 October 2009}}{{cite web|url=http://www.ifri.org/frontDispatcher/ifri/a_propos/conseil_d_administration_1038395199562|title=ifri|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091009102144/http://www.ifri.org/frontDispatcher/ifri/a_propos/conseil_d_administration_1038395199562|archive-date=9 October 2009}}{{cite web|url=http://www.cepii.fr/francgraph/conseil/conseil.htm|title=conseil|work=cepii.fr}}{{cite web|url=http://www.emarrakech.info/La-2-eme-World-Policy-Conference-,-du-30-octobre-au-1er-novembre-a-Marrakech_a24484.html|title=EMarrakech}}{{cite web|url=http://www.lematin.ma/Actualite/Express/Article.asp?id=118821|title=Lematin.ma}}

In 1979, de Montbrial created the French Institute of Foreign Relations (Ifri),{{Cite web|url=http://www.ifri.org/en/about/thierry-de-montbrial|title=Thierry de Montbrial, Founder and Executive chairman|website=www.ifri.org|access-date=27 September 2016}} which publishes – among others – the annual report RAMSES (yearly global report on the economic system and strategies){{Cite web|url=https://www.ifri.org/fr/publications?term_node_tid_depth_1=118|title=Publications {{!}} IFRI - Institut français des relations internationales|website=www.ifri.org|access-date=27 September 2016}} and the periodical Politique étrangère (foreign policy).{{Cite web|url=https://www.ifri.org/fr/politique-etrangere|title=Politique étrangère|website=www.ifri.org|access-date=27 September 2016}}

In 2008, Montbrial founded the World Policy Conference (WPC), an annual meeting which addresses global governance issues and which gathers political, economic and social leaders. The next edition will take place in Abu-Dhabi on 1–3 October 2021.{{Cite web|url=https://www.worldpolicyconference.com/fr/conference-venue-2021/|title=Lieu de la conférence WPC 2021 – World Policy Conference}}

de Montbrial was also chairman of the French-Austrian Centre for European Economic Convergence (CFA) between 1985 and 2015. Between 1993 and 2001, he was the inaugural chairman of the Foundation for Strategic Research. He is a regular contributor to the media, and was notably a columnist for the daily Le Monde (2002- 2010), after being a columnist for Le Figaro (1989- 2001).

de Montbrial is on the boards of several institutions and international companies. He is – among others – member of the international advisory board of Lafarge{{Cite web|url=http://www.lafarge.com/en/international-advisory-board|title=International Advisory Board|date=6 February 2015|access-date=27 September 2016}} and chairman of the international advisory board of the Group OCP (Morocco), and member of the board of directors of the Renault Foundation. He was a member of the advisory council of the WTO secretary general, Geneva (2003–2005), member of the Commission Defense and National Security White Paper (2007-2008) and member of the Steering Committee for the Bilderberg Meetings (1976-2011).{{Cite web|url=http://rue89.nouvelobs.com/2011/06/12/voici-la-liste-du-club-bilderberg-des-maitres-du-monde-208978|title=Voici la liste du club Bilderberg des " maîtres du monde " |website=Rue89|date=12 June 2011 |access-date=27 September 2016}}

de Montbrial is a member of the advisory committee of the Peterson Institute for International Economics (Washington), the Carnegie Moscow Center, the advisory council of the Stanford Institute for International Studies and the editorial board of Russia in Global Affairs (Moscow). He is also a member of the [https://web.archive.org/web/20111006034618/http://www.fondationecologiedavenir.org/Conseil_Orientation.htm Fondation Ecologie d'Avenir] since 2011.{{Cite web|url=https://www.mediapart.fr/journal/france/280911/la-fondation-de-claude-allegre-recrute-le-gratin-scientifique-et-mediatique?onglet=full|title=La fondation de Claude Allègre recrute le gratin scientifique et médiatique|date=28 September 2011 |language=fr-FR|access-date=27 September 2016}}

Academies

de Montbrial was elected at the French Academy of Moral and Political Sciences on 29 June 1992. He was Chairman of this academy in 2001 and of the Institut de France at the same time. He is a founding member of the Académie des Technologies (2000).{{Cite web|url=http://www.academie-technologies.fr/fr/members/314-thierry-de%2520montbrial|title=Thierry DE MONTBRIAL - Académie des technologies|website=www.academie-technologies.fr|access-date=27 September 2016}}

He is also a member of the Academia Europaea (elected in March 1993),{{Cite web|url=http://www.ae-info.org/ae/Member/Montbrial_Thierry|title=Academy of Europe: Montbrial Thierry|last=Hoffmann|first=Ilire Hasani, Robert|website=www.ae-info.org|access-date=27 September 2016}} the Royal Academy of Belgium (elected in January 1996),{{Cite web|url=http://www.academieroyale.be/cgi?lg=fr&pag=690&tab=24&rec=369&frm=290&par=secorig593|title=Thierry de Montbrial|website=www.academieroyale.be|language=fr|access-date=28 September 2016}} the Swedish Royal Academy of Engineering Sciences (elected in 1999),{{Cite web|url=http://www.iva.se/globalassets/info-trycksaker/iva/iva-annual-report-2015.pdf|title=Annual Report of the Swedish Royal Academy of Engineering Sciences}} the Romanian Academy (elected in December 1999),{{Cite web|url=http://www.nineoclock.ro/the-romanian-academy-150-years-in-the-service-of-the-romanian-nation/|title=The Romanian Academy – 150 Years in the Service of the Romanian Nation {{!}} Nine O'Clock|website=www.nineoclock.ro|date=4 April 2016 |access-date=27 September 2016}}{{Cite web|url=http://www.acad.ro/bdar/armembriStr-Act.php|title=Academia Romana (membri din strainatate)|website=www.acad.ro|language=ro|access-date=28 September 2016}} the Academy of Science of Russia (elected in May 2003),{{Cite web|url=http://www.ras.ru/win/db/show_per.asp?P=.id-62295.ln-ru|title=Де Монбриаль Т.. - Общая информация|website=www.ras.ru|language=ru|access-date=28 September 2016}} the Academy of Science of Moldavia (elected in January 2006),{{Cite web|url=http://www.asm.md/?go=detalii-membri&n=151&new_language=1|title=Details of ASM members|website=www.asm.md|access-date=28 September 2016}} the Academy of Science of Bulgaria (elected in July 2006){{Cite web|url=http://www.bas.bg/about-us/members-of-bas/2528-foreign-members|title=Foreign Members|access-date=28 September 2016|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161001204900/http://www.bas.bg/about-us/members-of-bas/2528-foreign-members|archive-date=1 October 2016}} and in 2010 was accepted as corresponding academician in the Royal Academy of Economics and Financial Sciences of Spain.{{cite web|url=https://racef.es/es/academicos/correspondiente-extranjero/excmo-sr-dr-d-thierry-de-montbrial|title=Excmo. Sr. Dr. D. Thierry De Montbrial|website=RACEF}}

de Montbrial is Doctor Honoris Causa of the Romanian Academy for economic studies (1996),{{Cite web|url=http://www.conferinte-ince.ro/commitees.html|title=The 3rd International Conference 'Economic Scientific Research - Theoretical, Empirical and Practical Approaches'|website=www.conferinte-ince.ro|access-date=27 September 2016}} the Academy of Science of Azerbaidjan (2002), the University of Brasov, Romania (2003), the University of Galatasaray, Turkey (2004), the State University of Chisinau, Moldavia (2005), the State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO) of Moscow (2007), the University of Bucarest, Romania (2011), Iasi, Romania (2014) and of Sofia University, Bulgaria{{Cite news|url=https://twitter.com/France_Bulgarie/status/862583192150081536|title=La France à Sofia on Twitter|work=Twitter|access-date=11 May 2017|language=FR}} (2017).

Distinctions and state honors

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  • L'ère des affrontements. Les grands tournants géopolitiques, Dunod, 2025
  • Histoire de mon temps, Académie roumaine, Fondation nationale pour la science et les arts, Bucarest, 2018
  • Vivre le temps des troubles, Albin Michel, 2017. English translation Living in Troubled Times, a New Political Era, World Scientific, 2018, and in Bulgarian, édition Académie bulgare des Sciences, 2019.
  • Notre intérêt national, (dir. avec T. Gomart), Odile Jacob, 2017
  • La pensée et l’action, Académie roumaine, Fondation nationale pour la science et les arts, Bucarest, 2016
  • Une goutte d'eau et l'océan - Journal d'une quête de sens, Albin Michel, 2015
  • My Romanian Journal, Editura RAO, 2012 (Bilingual edition: in Romanian and French)
  • Journal de Russie – 1977 - 2011, 2012
  • Vingt ans qui bouleversèrent le monde, édition Dunod, 2008
  • Violence : de la psychologie à la politique, (dir. avec S. Jansen), Fondation Singer Polignac, Bruylant, Bruxelles, 2007
  • Il est nécessaire d'espérer pour entreprendre, édition des Syrtes, 2006
  • Géographie politique, collection "Que Sais-je ?", PUF, 2006
  • L’Identité de la France et l’Europe, (dir. avec S. Jansen), Fondation Singer Polignac, Bruylant, Bruxelles, 2005
  • La guerre et la diversité du monde, L'Aube - Le Monde, 2004
  • Pratiques de la négociation (dir., avec S. Jansen), Bruylant/LGDG, 2004
  • Quinze ans qui bouleversèrent le monde, Dunod, October 2003
  • Réformes-révolutions - Le cas de la France (dir.), PUF, 2003
  • L'action et le système du monde, PUF, February 2002, 2nd edition, collection "Quadrige", October 2003, couronné par le prix Georges Pompidou
  • La France du nouveau siècle (dir.), PUF, February 2002
  • Dictionnaire de Stratégie (co-directeur avec Jean Klein), PUF, November 2000
  • Pour combattre les pensées uniques, Flammarion, 2000
  • Introduction à l’économie, Dunod, 1999, 2nd ed. 2002
  • Mémoire du temps présent, Flammarion, 1996, couronné par le Prix des Ambassadeurs
  • Que Faire ? Les grandes manoeuvres du monde, La Manufacture, 1990
  • La science économique ou la stratégie des rapports de l'homme vis-à-vis des ressources rares : méthodes et modèles, PUF, 1988
  • La revanche de l'Histoire, Julliard, 1985
  • L'Energie : le compte à rebours, J.CL. Lattès, 1978
  • Le Désordre économique mondial, Calmann-Lévy, 1974
  • Essais d'économie parétienne, Ed. CNRS, 1974
  • Economie théorique, PUF, 1971

See also

References

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External links

  • {{official|http://www.thierrydemontbrial.com/en/ }}
  • [http://www.ifri.org/en Website of the French Institute of international relations (Ifri)]
  • [https://www.worldpolicyconference.com/ Website of the World Policy Conference (WPC)]

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