Prénom de l'expert

Thierry

Nom de l'expert

de MONTBRIAL

Thierry de Montbrial founded the French Institute of International Relations in 1979. He is its Executive Chairman and Co-Editor of Ramses, Ifri’s yearbook. He is also the Chairman of the World Policy Conference, which he launched in 2008.

He is a a Professor Emeritus at the Conservatoire national des arts et métiers (CNAM). Between 1993 and 2001, he was the first Chairman of the Foundation for Strategic Research (Fondation pour la Recherche Stratégique, FRS). He was the Chairman of the French-Austrian Center for European Economic Convergence (1985-2015).

In 1973, he was entrusted by Michel Jobert, Foreign Minister at the time, with the creation of the Policy Planning Staff (Centre d'Analyse et de Prévision, CAP – now CAPS) at the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He was its Director from 1973 to 1979. He is a former Professor at the École Polytechnique and chaired its Department of Economics between 1974 and 1992. He held the chair of Applied Economics and International Relations at the Conservatoire national des arts et métiers between 1995 and 2008.

In 1992, he was elected as a member of the Institut de France (Académie des Sciences Morales et Politiques) of which he was elected Chairman for the year 2001. He is also a founding member of the Académie des Technologies. In 2019, Thierry de Montbrial was elected as a member of the Académie des Sciences d’Outre-Mer.

He is also a member of the Academia Europaea in (1993), of the Académie Royale de Belgique (1996), of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences (1999), of the Romanian Academy (1999), of the Russian Academy of Sciences (2003), of the Academy of Sciences of Moldova (2006), of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (2006), and of the Real Academia de Ciencias Económicas y Financieras, Spain (2008).

Thierry de Montbrial is a Doctor Honoris Causa of numerous foreign universities.

He is a Grand Officer of the Légion d’honneur,  Grand Officer of the Ordre National du Mérite, Commander of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. He has been awarded other state honors by the French and several foreign governments, including the Grand Prix de la Société de Géographie (2003).

Thierry de Montbrial is the author of numerous books, several of which have been translated into various languages, in economics and international affairs, including Action and Reaction in the World System and Living in Troubled Times.

Born in 1943, Thierry de Montbrial is a graduate of the École Polytechnique and a Ph.D. in Mathematical Economics from the University of California, Berkeley.