Claude Michaud (1935-2014) was a management educator and economist. He was a professor of economics at INSEAD and a director-general of the European Center for Executive Development.
After obtaining a PhD in economics at the University of Bordeaux, Claude Michaud joined (in 1961) the Banque Sudameris, then a subsidiary of the Banca Commerciale Italiana. He moved a year later to the Caisse Nationale des Marchés d'État, an agency of the French Ministry of Finance. In 1967 he joined the Centre de Recherche de l'Urbanisme, [1] a research center set up by the French Ministries of Education and Construction in the 1960s, becoming its Research Director in 1975. In 1970 he joined the economics faculty of INSEAD as an associate professor, becoming a full professor five years later. Also in 1975 he accepted the post of Deputy Director of CEDEP, becoming Director General in 1991 and served in that capacity until his retirement in 2003. He came out of retirement to serve a second term as Director General in 2005 and retired definitively in 2007. He was also Scientific Adviser to the Fondation Europe et Société (1985–94) and Member of the Science Council of the Tissot Economic Foundation (1988–95).
His research initially focused on urban development. [2] [3] He then turned to issues of regulation, privatization, and competitiveness. [4] [5] [6] [7] With the increasing integration of Europe's national economies in the EEC and later the EU he began looking at the implications of the single European market. [8] [9] [10] His work in the 1990s looked more at the drivers of firm competitiveness and resulted in the publications with Chicago decision-scientist Robin Hogarth [11] [12] and sociologist Jean-Claude Thoenig. [13] [14]
Claude Michaud was appointed a Chevalier de l'Ordre Nationale du Mérite in 2010
Médéric Louis Élie Moreau de Saint-Méry, son of Bertrand-Médéric and Marie-Rose Moreau de Saint-Méry, was born in Fort-Royale, Martinique. He was a lawyer and writer with a career in public office in France, Martinique, and Saint-Domingue. He is best known for his publications on Saint Domingue and Martinique. He married into a well-positioned family which allowed him to expand his connections among French people and in time, positioned himself as a member of the Parliament of France. Moreau was deeply involved in the founding of the Museum of Paris which he was later appointed president of in 1787.
Djibril Tamsir Niane was a Guinean historian, playwright, and short story writer.
Vincent E. Courtillot is an emeritus French geophysicist, prominent among the researchers who are critical of the hypothesis that impact events are a primary cause of mass extinction of life forms on the Earth. He is known for his book "La Vie en catastrophes", translated into English as "Evolutionary catastrophes" (1999).
Bruno Racine is a French civil servant and writer.
The Community of Universities and Institutions (COMUE) Lille Nord de France was a French Groups of Universities and Institutions (COMUE) spread over multiple campuses and centered in Lille. It included a European Doctoral College and federated universities, engineering schools and research centers. With more than one hundred thousand students, it was one of the largest university federations in France. The University of Lille, with nearly 70,000 students, was its main component. The COMUE stopped its activity in 2019 and its activities were transferred to its founding institutions.
Louis André Gaspard Michaud was a French malacologist. He is also known as Gaspard Michaud or as André Louis Gaspard Michaud.
René Truhaut was a French toxicologist. He was made chairman of the department of toxicology at the Paris Faculty of Medicine. He is known for having introduced the concept of daily intake in 1956, and for coining the term "ecotoxicology" which defined it as "the branch of toxicology concerned with the study of toxic effects, caused by natural or synthetic pollutants, to the constituents of ecosystems, animal, vegetable and microbial, in an integral context”.
Jean-Louis Cohen was a French architect and architectural historian specializing in modern architecture and city planning. Since 1994 he had been the Sheldon H. Solow Professor in the History of Architecture at New York University Institute of Fine Arts.
François Dupuy was a French management scholar, educator, and consultant, specializing in the sociology of business organizations. In 2015 he served as an adjunct professor at INSEAD and as academic director at CEDEP, the European Centre for Executive Development. He is the author of numerous books on management in both French and English. He was also a co-founder and partner of Mesa Research Group, a consulting firm specializing in leadership development.
Jean-Hervé Lorenzi is a French economist.
Jean-Henri-Nicolas Bouillet was an 18th-century French physician, Encyclopédiste and mayor of Béziers from 1787 to 1790.
Jean-Louis Ferrary was a French historian, a specialist in ancient Rome.
Jean Andreau is a French historian, former student of the École normale supérieure (1960) and former member of the École française de Rome. As of 2016, he is research director at the EHESS.
CEDEP, also known as The European Centre for Executive Development, is an international, not-for-profit organization co-located on the INSEAD campus in Fontainebleau, France, about 50 km from Paris. Founded in 1972, it operates as an executive club and corporate university for a diverse set of 20 global companies including L’Oréal, Aviva, Renault, Bekaert, Valeo, AXA, GDF Suez, and TATA Steel. CEDEP offers two types of programs: Open Enrollment, available to managers from all member companies, and Company Specific programs. Most programs are delivered on CEDEP's purpose-built, residential campus, but in recent years CEDEP has been delivering programs off-campus, notably in China, Brazil, and Canada.
Jean Robin is a French writer, essayist, and conspiracy theorist particularly interested in occult and esoteric issues, secret societies, and their influence throughout history.
The Reclus family, largely known as the progeny and extended family of pastor Jacques Reclus, became known for their distinctive careers in geography, anarchism, journalism, medicine, and other fields during the 19th and 20th centuries.
Jacqueline Coutras, born in 1942, is a French geographer, CNRS researcher, and pioneer of gender geography in France.
Jean Merley was a French historian and professor at the Université de Saint-Étienne, which he cofounded. He also founded the Centre de recherches historiques and became director of the Centre interdisciplinaire d'études et de recherche sur les structures régionales.
Jean-Claude Yon, born Paris, 22 February 1966 is a French academic and historian. He has specialised in the world of 19th century theatre and opera, notably the work of Scribe and Offenbach. He is professor at the Université de Versailles-Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines.
Jean-Paul Betbeze, born in Bagnères-de-Bigorre on September 6, 1949, is a French economist and university professor.