Christian Gollier

Christian Gollier's research spans the fields of economics of uncertainty, environmental economics, finance, consumption, insurance and cost-benefit analysis, with a particular interest in long-term sustainable effects. He founded the Jean-Jacques Laffont/Toulouse School of Economics foundation with Jean Tirole in 2007, and was its director between 2009 and 2024 (with a break in 2015-2016). Since 19 June 2023, he has been Executive Director of TSE. He was awarded an Advanced ERC Grant in 2009, as well as three delegations to the Institut Universitaire de France. He is a fellow of the Econometric Society. During the academic year 2021-2022, he held a chair at the Collège de France.

Christian Gollier has published over 140 articles in international scientific journals, as well as 10 books on risk, including ‘The Economics of Risk and Time’ (MIT Press), which won the ‘Paul A. Samuelson Award (2001). In 2012, he published a book entitled ‘Pricing the Planet's Future’ with Princeton University Press, which he presented at the 6th Arrow Lecture at Columbia University. He is one of the authors of the 4th and 5th reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC, 2007 and 2013). He also regularly advises several governments on their policies for evaluating public investment and the ecological transition. He has chaired EAERE, the European Association of Environmental Economists. His recent book for the general public, ‘Le Climat après la fin du mois’ (PUF 2019), deals with the importance of taking action in the face of climate change and has been a great success in France.