Fellowship

The RSE Fellowship comprises around 1,800 leading experts in the sciences, arts, business, professions and the third and public sectors, with links to Scotland. This range of expertise within the Fellowship places us in a unique position to provide an informed, interdisciplinary response to issues facing Scotland and internationally.

Our Fellows from academia, business and public service are among the most distinguished in their fields. We engage and connect nationally and internationally to share knowledge and tackle the most pressing challenges of the modern world.

Elected: 2013
Discipline: Economics and Social Sciences
Professor Jean Tirole
Scientific Director, Institut d'Economie Industrielle (IDEI)
Professor Jean Tirole is a French economist who won the Nobel Prize in Economics in 2014 for his analysis of market power and regulation of firms. He received his PhD in Economics in 1981 from MIT and returned in 1984 as Professor of Economics. From 1994 – 1996 Jean was a Professor of Economics at École Polytechnique. Alongside his role at Institut d’Economie Industrielle, he is currently Chairman of the board at the Toulouse School of Economics. Jean has published almost 200 articles in economics and finance and is the author of 10 books.
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