Ivar Ekeland

IVAR EKELAND

Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada

Member of the Academia Europea

Foreign member of the Academies ofNorway, Palestine and Austria

Honorary doctorates from the Universities ofBritish Columbia,Saint-Petersburg, and Vienna

Academic career

Service to the scientific community

Distinctions

Journal editorships

Thesis supervisions

ACADEMIC CAREER

1963-67

Student at Ecole Normale Supérieure

1967-1970

Research assistant at CNRS

1970-2003

Professor at the University of Paris-Dauphine

2003-2011

Canada Research Chair in Mathematical Economics, University of British Columbia

2008-present

Professor Emeritus at the University of Paris-Dauphine

SERVICE TO THE SCIENTIFIC COMMUNITY

1989-94

President of the University of Paris-Dauphine

1991-94

President of the Scientific Council of Ecole Normale Supérieure

1991-1994

President of the National Board for Professional Higher Education (IUP)

2001

Chair of the Review Panel for Mathematical Education in French-speaking Belgian universities

2003

Chair of the Review Panel for Mathematical Research in Norwegian universities

2003-2008

Director, the Pacific Institute of Mathematical Sciences (PIMS)

2007-2011

Co-Chair of the Scientific committee for the 2011 International Congress of Industrial and Applied Mathematics (ICIAM)

2008-2012

Member of the Forschungskuratorium of the Austrian Academy of Sciences

2009-2012

Président du Conseil Scientifique de la Fondation du Risque

2010-2016

Member of the Scienfic Advisory Board of the Toulouse School of Economics

2020- present

Member of the Comité Scientifique de l'Autorité des Marché Financiers

2020

Member of the Academia Europea

DISTINCTIONS

1978

Invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians

1983

Paul Langevin prize of the Paris Academy of Sciences

1984

Jean Rostand prize for my book “Mathematics and the Unexpected”

1992

d'Alembert prize for my book “The broken dice“ 

1995

Honorary doctorate from the University of British Columbia (Canada)

1996

Honorary doctorate from the Saint-Peterburg University of Economics and Finance (Russia)

1996

Grand Prize of the Belgian Academy of Sciences

1998

Foreign member, the Norwegian Academy of Sciences

2001

Sara Lee Chair in Economics, University of Chicago

2007

Public lecture at the International Congress of Industrial and Applied Mathematics (ICIAM)

2008

Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada

2009

Foreign member, the Palestinian Academy for Science and Technology

2009

Honorary degree from l'Ecole Internationale des Sciences du Traitement de l'Information

2012

Foreign member, the Austrian Academy of Sciences

2012

Honorary doctorate from the University of Vienna

2020

Member of the Academia Europea

JOURNAL EDITORSHIPS

1984-1990

Founder and Editor-in-Chief, Annales de l'Institut Henri Poincaré, Seric C, Analyse Non Linéaire

2011- 2015

Editor-in-Chief, Mathematics and Financial Economics

THESIS SUPERVISIONS

There are two types of thesis in France : the first one is equivalent to a PhD, and qualifies its holder for an assisant professorship, the second one requires several more years of work, qualifies its defender for a professorship

PhD thesis (thèse de 3ème cycle ou thèse)

Lasry (1972), Berliocchi (1972), Quetin (1973), Momal (1974), Lebourg (1975), Henri (1978), Bougeard (1978), Orthmans (1979), Gaussens (1979), Azé (1980), Frenisy (1980), Blot (1981), Truc J.C. (1983), Truc M. (1983), Ollivry (1983), Albizatti (1983), Viterbo (1985), Brousseau (1985), Mathlouti (1986), Ranty (1987), Assem (1987), Saddek (1988), Daly (1989), Künzle (1990), Geoffard (1991), Ounaïes (1991), Romano (1992), Guérinet (1992), Daher (1993), Séré (1993), Bolle (1994), Burdeau (1994), Praud-Lion (1996), Aloqeili (2000), Carlier (2001), Dia (2003), Basta (2003), Moreno (2008)

Professorhip thesis (thèse d'état, ou habilitation à diriger des recherches)

Lasry (1975), Balasko (1977), Methlouti-Trad (1979), Gaussens (1984), Lassoued (1987), Blot (1992), Mathlouti (1993), Viterbo (1989), Séré (1994), Vieille (1998), Touzi (1999), Carlier (2003), Sant'Ambrogio (2010)

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