The Scientific Team

Masahiko Aoki
Masahiko Aoki		 Masahiko Aoki is professor emeritus of economics at Stanford University. He is president of the International Economic Association (2008–2011) and was a former president of the Japanese Economic Association. In 2007, he created the Virtual Center for Advanced Studies in Institutions, based in Tokyo. He founded the Research Centre of the Japanese Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (M.E.T.I.) in 2001 and served as its director until 2004. Professor Aoki has been an adviser on developmental issues at the World Bank since 1997. He was awarded the Joseph Schumpeter Prize in 1998.
Robert BoyerRobert Boyer Robert Boyer is director of research at the Groupe de Recherche en Droit, Économie et Gestion, a research centre specializing in economic law and management based in Nice. He is also professor honoris causa at Buenos Aires University and at the University of Leuven in Belgium. Professor Boyer is president of the association Recherche et Régulation.

Josselin Garnierjosselin_garnier_portrait

 Josselin Garnier is professor of mathematics at the Université Paris VII and a researcher at the Laboratoire de probabilités et modèles aléatoires and the Laboratoire Jacques-Louis Lions. He is a junior member of the Institut Universitaire de France. Professor Garnier received the Blaise Pascal Prize from the French Academy of Sciences in 2007 and the Felix Klein Prize from the European Mathematical Society in 2008.
Bernard GazierBernard Gazier Bernard Gazier is a member of the Institut Universitaire de France. He is professor of economics at the University of Paris-I (Panthéon-Sorbonne) and a researcher at the Centre for Economics (M.A.T.I.S.S.E.–C.E.S), a joint research team of the University of Paris 1 and the C.N.R.S. (French National Centre for Scientific Research). He is president of the Société de Port-Royal and co-president of the Cournot Centre.
Inge Kaulinge_kaul_portrait Inge Kaul is a professor at the Hertie School of Governance in Berlin and acts as policy adviser to various think tanks and international organizations. She was the first director of the United Nations Development Program’s (U.N.D.P.) Human Development Report Office from 1989 to 1994, and director of its Office of Development Studies until 2005.
Hans-Helmut KotzHans-Helmut Kotz

Hans-Helmut Kotz is a visiting professor at Harvard University (Department of Economics and Center for European Studies). He is a senior fellow at Goethe University’s Center for Financial Studies, chair of its Research Advisory Council, and an honorary professor at the University of Freiburg. He has served on the Executive Board of the Deutsche Bundesbank, the European Parliament’s Expert Group on Financial Markets, various committees of the Bank for International Settlements and of the O.E.C.D., where he was chair of the Financial Markets Committee.

Thierry MartinThierry Martin Thierry Martin is professor of philosophy of science at the Université de Franche-Comté and director of its philosophy centre on the logic of action (Laboratoire de recherches philosophiques sur les logiques de l’agir) in Besançon, France. He is a researcher at the French Institute for History, Philosophy of Science and Technology (I.H.P.S.T.), president of the Société de Philosophie des Sciences, and co-editor of the complete works of Augustin Cournot. Professor Martin is co-president of the Cournot Centre.
Johan Paulssonjohann_paulsson_portrait Johan Paulsson is an applied mathematician and director of the Paulsson Lab, created in the Biosystems Department of Harvard Medical School in 20005. He is a pioneer in stochastic modelling of molecular processes in cells.
Robert SolowRobert Solow Robert Solow is Institute Professor Emeritus of economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In 1987, he received the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics for his contributions to economic growth theory, and, in 1999, the U.S. National Medal of Science. He is a former president of the American Academy of Sciences and of the Econometrics Society. He is the Robert K. Merton Scholar at the Russell Sage Foundation. Founder with Jean-Louis Beffa of the Cournot Centre for Economic Studies, he is also co-founder of the Cournot Foundation and Centre.