Lesourne was head of economic services at Charbonnages de France from 1954 to 1957 and managing director at Groupe Sema from 1958 to 1975. He was the director of the Interfuturs project at the OECD from 1976 to 1979 and an economics professor at the Conservatoire national des arts et métiers (CNAM) from 1974 to 1998. He was a member of X-Démographie, économie, population until 1997,[2] and was a founding member of the French Academy of Technologies in 2000. He also chaired Futuribles International.[3]
Lesourne published numerous books on economics and foresight. His first economic works were Technique économique et gestion industrielle (1958) and Le calcul économique (1964).
↑Durance, Philippe; Cordobes, Stéphane (2007). Attitudes prospectives. Éléments d'une histoire de la prospective en France après 1945 (in French). Paris: L'Harmattan.
