In memoriam of Jacques Drèze

Photo © Rossel & Cie, Bruno d’Alimonte, Le Soir.

Dear colleagues,

It is with the greatest sadness that we learned that Jacques Drèze passed away on the evening of the 25th September, at age 93. Emeritus professor, he was the founder of CORE and its first president in 1966, as well as founding member of the European Economic Association and the European Doctoral Program in Quantitative Economics, among others. Jacques has collaborated during his extraordinary career with the greatest names of the 20th century in economics, including numerous Nobel Laureates. He leaves lasting scientific contributions to general equilibrium, decision theory, game theory, econometrics, and later macroeconomics and economic policy. He also supervised more than 20 PhD thesis.

Jacques Drèze had remained very active after his early retirement from teaching in 1989, still publishing dozens of scientifc papers. He sailed around the world with his wife in the 1990's. As recently as 2016, he gave a two-days lecture to a packed room as part of our CORE Lecture Series. He could still be regularly seen in the corridors of CV09. We all lost a true mentor and great friend.

We send our condolences to his wife Monique and his family,

Regards,

Catherine Legrand
President of LIDAM

Mathieu Van Vyve
President of CORE

• Curriculum vitae

• DIAL bibliography of Jacques Drèze
   

• From uncertainty to macroeconomics and back: an interview with Jacques Drèze / Pierre Dehez & Omar Licandro
  In: Macroeconomic Dynamics, 2005, vol. 9, p. 429-461
   

• Belgische topeconoom Jacques Drèze overleden - De Tijd, 26/09/2022

• La Belgique perd l’un de ses plus grands économistes, Jacques Drèze - Le Soir, 27/09/2022

• L'économiste Jacques Drèze est décédé - La Libre, 27/09/2022

• Hij was de grootste Belgische econoom ooit - De Standaard, 28/09/2022

• On aurait besoin d'un Jacques Drèze dans cette crise - L'Echo, 02/10/2022

• Jacques Drèze, 1929-2022 - Knack, 05/10/2022
   

• Tribute to former Econometric Society President Jacques Drèze

• Jacques Drèze, First President of EEA - European Economic Association

• The EUI mourns the loss of Jacques Drèze - European University Institute

• Le monde de l’économie rend hommage à Jacques Drèze - UCLouvain
   

• A video from Bob Aumann

• Video "Remembering Jacques Drèze" (Recording Zoom Meeting)