Thierry de Montbrial
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Thierry René Henri Magloire de Montbrial March 3, 1943 Paris, France |
| Residence | France |
| Alma mater | Ecole Polytechnique, Corps des Mines, Berkeley University |
| Occupation | Founder and Executive Chairman of the Institut français des relations internationales, Founder and Chairman of the World Policy Conference |
| Spouse(s) | Marie-Christine de Montbrial (married 1967) |
| Children | Thibault de Montbrial, Alexandra Pilleux-de Montbrial |
| Website | www |
Thierry de Montbrial (born 3 March 1943) is the Executive Chairman of the French Institute of International Relations (Ifri), which he founded in 1979. He is also the founder and Chairman of the World Policy Conference (WPC), which he created in 2008. He has been a member of the French Academy of Moral and Political Sciences since 1992, and he was President of the Institut de France. He is an honorary member of numerous foreign academies.
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; Ecole Polytechnique in 1935). He is the father of Thibault de Montbrial, lawyer and of Alexandra Pilleux-de Montbrial.
Montbrial graduated from the École Polytechnique (1963) and from the École des Mines (1969) as a general engineer. 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).
As a Corps des Mines engineer, Montbrial chaired the department of Economics of the Ecole 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.
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