Jean-Marie Chevalier

Chevalier was born in Paris on 4 June 1941 into a family from Creuse. He graduated from Sciences Po in 1962^[2] and earned a doctorate in economics from the Sorbonne.^[3]

Chevalier was a professor of economics at Algiers 1 University from 1966 to 1969 and subsequently worked as an economics engineer for Elf Aquitaine from 1970 to 1971. He then taught economic sciences at Mohammed V University from 1971 to 1973, at Pierre Mendès-France University from 1973 to 1975, and at the École nationale d'administration from 1975 to 1991.^[4] He was Director of the Centre de géopolitique de l'énergie et des matières premières [fr], located at Paris Dauphine University, until 2010.^[5] He also frequented the Paris office of the Cambridge Energy Research Associates.

In 2007, Chevalier co-authored a report advocating an end to France's energy independence in order to fulfill the country's commitments to the European Union.^[6] He was a member of the Conseil d'Analyse Économique from 2006 to 2010,^[7] a member of the Cercle des économistes,^[8] and the author of several books and articles on the field of energy.

Chevalier died on 31 October 2021 at the age of 80.

• L’économie industrielle en question (1977)
• Économie de l’énergie (1986)
• Économie industrielle des stratégies d’entreprise (2001)
• Où va l’économie mondiale ? (2002)
• La raison du plus fort. Les paradoxes de l’économie américaine (2004)
• Les grandes batailles de l’énergie (2004)
• Les 100 mots de l’énergie (2008)
• "Le vrai défi énergétique de la nouvelle décennie" (2010)^[9]
• Les nouveaux défis de l’energie (climat-economie-geopolitique) (2011)