Jean-Marie Chevalier Explained

Jean-Marie Chevalier
Birth Date:	4 June 1941
Birth Place:	Paris, Vichy France
Nationality:	French
Occupation:	Economist

Jean-Marie Chevalier (4 June 1941 – 31 October 2021) was a French economist.^[1] 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 Creuse. He graduated from Sciences Po in 1962^[2] and earned a doctorate in economics from the Sorbonne.^[3]

Chevalier was a professor of economics at Algiers 1 University from 1966 to 1969 and subsequently worked as an economics engineer for Elf Aquitaine from 1970 to 1971. He then taught economic sciences at Mohammed V University from 1971 to 1973, at Pierre Mendès-France University from 1973 to 1975, and at the École nationale d'administration from 1975 to 1991.^[4] He was Director of the, located at Paris Dauphine University, until 2010.^[5] He also frequented the Paris office of the Cambridge Energy Research Associates.

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.^[6] He was a member of the Conseil d'Analyse Économique from 2006 to 2010,^[7] a member of the Cercle des économistes,^[8] 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)^[9]
• Les nouveaux défis de l’energie (climat-economie-geopolitique) (2011)

Notes and References

1. News: N'Kaoua. Laurance. 4 November 2021. L'économiste Jean-Marie Chevalier s'est éteint. French. Les Echos. 4 November 2021.
2. Web site: Jean-Marie Chevalier. Sciences Po Alumni. French. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20170414082326/http://www.sciences-po.asso.fr/profil/jeanmarie.chevalier62_1. 14 April 2017.
3. Web site: Jean-Marie CHEVALIER. Le Cercle des économistes. French.
4. Web site: Jean Marie CHEVALIER. The American University of Paris. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20130402234346/http://www.aup.edu/graduate/mpp-maia/faculty/cv/chevalier.pdf. 2 April 2013.
5. Web site: Jean‐Marie Chevalier. CGEMP. French.
6. Book: Chevalier. Jean-Marie. Percebois. Jacques. 2010. Gaz et électricité : un défi pour l'Europe et pour la France. French. La Documentation française. 978-2-11-007038-8.
7. Web site: Anciens membres. Conseil d'analyse économique. French. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20131125023143/http://www.cae-eco.fr/Anciens-membres.html. 25 November 2013.
8. Web site: CHEVALIER Jean-Marie. Le Cercle des économistes. French. dead. https://archive.today/20120918143350/http://www.lecercledeseconomistes.asso.fr/spip.php?rubrique173&lang=fr. 18 September 2012.
9. News: Chevalier. Jean-Marie. Derdevet. Michel. 4 January 2010. Le vrai défi énergétique de la nouvelle décennie. French. La Tribune. 4 November 2021.