Keynote speakers > Christian Gollier

Mr. Christian Gollier, Professor of Economics at Toulouse School of Economics, University of Toulouse-Capitole.
Christian Gollier’s research spans the fields of the economics of uncertainty and environmental economics, as well as finance, consumption, insurance, and cost–benefit analysis, with a particular interest in long-term sustainable effects.

He co-founded the Jean-Jacques Laffont/Toulouse School of Economics with Jean Tirole in 2007 and served as its director from 2009 to 2024 (with an interruption in 2015–2016). Since June 19, 2023, he has been the Executive Director of the TSE grand établissement.

He was awarded an Advanced ERC Grant in 2009, as well as three appointments to the Institut Universitaire de France. He is a Fellow of the Econometric Society. During the 2021–2022 academic year, he held a chair at the Collège de France.

Christian Gollier has published more than 140 articles in international scientific journals, as well as 10 books on risk, including The Economics of Risk and Time (MIT Press), which received the Paul A. Samuelson Award (2001).

In 2012, he published a book with Princeton University Press entitled Pricing the Planet’s Future, which he presented at the “6th Arrow Lecture” at Columbia University.

He is one of the authors of the 4th and 5th Assessment Reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC, 2007 and 2013). In addition, he regularly advises several governments on their public investment evaluation policies and the ecological transition. He chaired the EAERE, the European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists. His recent popular science book, Le Climat après la fin du mois (PUF, 2019), addresses the importance of taking action on climate change and has been widely acclaimed in France.