Thierry de Montbrial

Thierry de Montbrial is a French economics and international relations specialist and researcher.

Biography

He is the son of François de Montbrial, 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; X in 1935). He is the father of Thibault de Montbrial, lawyer and of Alexandra de Montbrial. He graduated from the École Polytechnique (1963) and from the École des Mines (1966). He received his doctorate in Economics from the University of California, Berkeley in the United States. He directed the Center of Analysis and Prevision (CAP) for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs prior to Jean-Louis Gergorin.[1][2][3][4][5] He is also a member of the Fondation Ecologie d'Avenir since 2011.

Academic positions

He founded the Department of Economics of the École Polytechnique where he was president until 1992. He is the director of the trimestrial Politique étrangère and teaches at the Conservatoire national des arts et métiers and for the Master Recherche Relations internationales of Panthéon-Assas University. He created in (1979) and leads the Institut français des relations internationales (IFRI) that publishes the annual Ramsès report. Member of the Director Committee of the Bilderberg conferences since 1976. He is member of the council of the Centre d'études prospectives et d'informations internationales (CEPII) and is on the editorial board of Foreign Policy. In 2010 was accepted as corresponding academician in the Royal Academy of Economics and Financial Sciences of Spain.[6]

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