CLAUDE MENARD
NOTA CURRICULAR

Born in Canada, Dr. Menard received a Ph.D. in Economics and a Ph. D. in Philosophy (History of Sciences) from the University of Paris (Pantheon Sorbonne), a Master degree and a BA from the University of Montreal. He has taught at College Edouard Montpetit (Quebec), the University of Utrecht (the Netherlands) and the University of Dijon (France) before being appointed full professor in economics at the University of Paris (Pantheon Sorbonne), a position he has held since 1983. His field of teaching and research is economics of organizations and institutions and industrial organization. Dr. Menard is a founding member and a past president (2001-2002) of the International Society for New Institutional Economics (ISNIE), the founding director of the Centre for the Analytical Theory of Organizations and Markets (ATOM), and co-editor of the Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization. He has been a consultant for several governmental and international organizations, including the European Commission and the World Bank. He has published several books, and numerous papers in international journals, mostly on the economics of organizations and institutions, but also in the history of economic thought.