Roger Guesnerie

Career

Guesnerie studied at École Polytechnique and the École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées, and received his doctorate in economics from the University of Toulouse in 1982. He has taught at the London School of Economics, the École Polytechnique, and at Harvard University. Guesnerie has published widely in economics, including in public economics, in the theory of incentives and economic mechanisms, and in the theory of general economic equilibrium.

Honors and responsibilities

Guesnerie has been elected president of several scholarly societies, notably the French Association of Economic Sciences (2002–2003), the Econometric Society (1996), and the European Economic Association (1994). Guesnerie has been elected as a foreign honorary member of the American Economic Association and as a foreign member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He has served as co-editor of Econometrica (1984–1989) and as foreign editor of the Review of Economic Studies. In France, Guesnerie's research has been recognized with the CNRS Silver Medal; he has been declared to be a Chevalier de l'Ordre National du Mérite and Chevalier de la Légion d'honneur.