Ivar Ekeland#

Present and Previous Positions

• 2011 Professor Emeritus, Université Paris-Dauphine and University of British Columbia
• 2003 - 2011 Canada Research Chair in Mathematical Economics, University of British Columbia
• 2003 - 2008 Director of the Pacific Institute of Mathematical Sciences (PIMS, Vancouver)
• 1970 - 2003 Professor at the Université Paris-Dauphine
• 1989 - 1994 President of the Université Paris-Dauphine
• 1991 - 1994 President of the National Board for Professional Higher Education (IUP)
• 1991 - 1994 President of the Scientific Council of Ecole Normale Supérieure
• 1967 Research assistant at CNRS
• 1963 Student at Ecole Normale Supérieure (Ulm)

• Adverse selection
• Growth theory, intergenerational equity, time inconsistency
• Portfolio management
• Hamiltonian mechanics, symplectic geometry and topology
• Theory of demand
• Hedonic markets
• Convex analysis, optimization, control theory, calculus of variations
• Optimal transportation
• Hard inverse function theorems
• Urban economics

• 2012 Foreign member, the Austrian Academy of Sciences
• 2012 Honorary doctorate from the University of Vienna (Austria)
• 2009 Foreign member, the Palestinian Academy for Science and Technology
• 2008 Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada
• 2007 Public lecture at the International Congress of Industrial and Applied Mathematics (ICIAM Zurich)
• 1998 Foreign member, the Norwegian Academy of Sciences
• 1996 Grand Prize of the Belgian Academy of Sciences
• 1996 Honorary doctorate from the Saint-Peterburg University of Economics and Finance (Russia)
• 1995 Honorary doctorate from the University of British Columbia (Canada)
• 1992 d'Alembert prize for my book “The broken dice“
• 1984 Jean Rostand prize for my book “Mathematics and the Unexpected”
• 1983 Langevin prize of the Paris Academy of Sciences
• 1978 Invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM Helsinki)

Curriculum Vitae

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Highlights of my work and anecdotes

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