Jean-Marie Chevalier (4 June 1941 – 31 October 2021) was a French economist. He specialized in energy economics from the 1970s until the 2000s.

Biography

Chevalier was born in Paris on 4 June 1941 into a family from

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. He graduated from

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in 1962 and earned a doctorate in economics from the Sorbonne. Chevalier was a professor of economics at Algiers 1 University from 1966 to 1969 and subsequently worked as an economics engineer for

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from 1970 to 1971. He then taught economic sciences at

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from 1971 to 1973, at

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from 1973 to 1975, and at the

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from 1975 to 1991. He was Director of the , located at

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, until 2010. He also frequented the Paris office of the

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. In 2007, Chevalier co-authored a report advocating an end to France's energy independence in order to fulfill the country's commitments to the European Union. He was a member of the Conseil d'Analyse Économique from 2006 to 2010, a member of the

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, and the author of several books and articles on the field of energy. Chevalier died on 31 October 2021 at the age of 80.

Publications

*''L’économie industrielle en question'' (1977) *''Économie de l’énergie'' (1986) *''Économie industrielle des stratégies d’entreprise'' (2001) *''Où va l’économie mondiale ?'' (2002) *''La raison du plus fort. Les paradoxes de l’économie américaine'' (2004) *''Les grandes batailles de l’énergie'' (2004) *''Les 100 mots de l’énergie'' (2008) *"Le vrai défi énergétique de la nouvelle décennie" (2010) *''Les nouveaux défis de l’energie (climat-economie-geopolitique)'' (2011)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Chevalier, Jean-Marie 1941 births 2021 deaths French economists Sciences Po alumni Academic staff of the University of Algiers Academic staff of Mohammed V University People from Paris