Seminar 15. Thierry de Montbrial: “Has the virus changed the international system?”

On Wednesday, June 10, 2020, the International Laboratory on World Order Studies and the New Regionalism and Department of International Relations of the National Research University Higher School of Economics were delighted to host a world-renowned French foreign policy thinker Thierry de Montbrial. The topic of his talk is “Has the virus changed the international system?”

Thierry de Montbrial is the Executive Chairman of the French Institute of International Relations (Institut français des relations internationales, Ifri) which he headed since 1979. In 2008, he launched the World Policy Conference.

Professor de Montbrial graduated from the Ecole Polytechnique and the Ecole des Mines, and received a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of California, Berkeley. He was Professor at the Ecole Polytechnique since 1974 and chaired its Department of Economics between 1974 and 1992. He is Professor Emeritus at the Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers. He was also the Chairman of the French-Austrian Center for European Economic Convergence (1985-2015).

Professor de Montbrial serves on the International Advisory Board of Lafarge and chairs the International Advisory Board of OCP Group (Morocco). He is on the Board of Directors of Renault Foundation. He sits on the editorial advisory board of Foreign Policy, Washington, the editorial board of Russia in Global Affairs, Moscow, and the editorial board of The South African Journal of International Affairs, Johannesburg. He is also a Visiting Professor at the China Foreign Affairs University, Beijing.

In June 1992, he was elected as a member of the Institut de France (Académie des Sciences Morales et Politiques) of which he was elected chairman for the year 2001. He is also a founding member of the Académie des Technologies. He is also a foreign member of a number academies including the Russian Academy of Sciences.

Professor de Montbrial is the author of many professional articles and of twenty books (several of them translated in various languages) in economics and international affairs.