Patrice GEOFFRON

Bio

Current functions

• Professor of Economics at Paris Dauphine University.
• Director of the Center for Geopolitics of Energy and Commodities (CGEMP).
• Member of the Board of Directors of the French Energy Council
• Co-editor of the journal Economics and Policy of Energy and the Environment
• Member of the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Management and Network Economics.
• Member of the International Energy Association of Energy Economics, World Council
• Member of the European Distribution System Operators ’Association for Smart Grids, Stakeholders and Innovation Council

Previous functions

• International Vice-President of Paris-Dauphine University
• Director of the Dauphine Economics Laboratory
• Professor at the University of Reims and Paris XIII
• Visiting professor at the universities of Todai (Tokyo), Fudan (Shanghai) and Bocconi (Milan)
• Energy expert at the World Bank / ICSID Arbitral Tribunal.
• Columnist for Le Monde (1997-2007).

Training

• Associate of economics
• Ability to lead research
• Doctor of Economics (Thesis Prize of the National Association of Doctors of Economics).

Main publications

• Meeting the Paris Mandate: A Cross-national Comparison of Energy Policy-making, with Lorna Greening and Raphael Heffron (eds.), Springer, to be published (2020).
• What scope for environmental taxations and incentives?, In Economics and Policy of Energy and the Environment, 2019.
• Meeting the Paris Mandate: A Cross-national Comparison of Energy Policy-making, with Lorna Greening and Raphael Heffron (eds.), Springer, to be published (2019).
• Low carbon economy and smart grids, Routledge Handbook of Energy Economics, 2019. With Cédric Clastres.
• How to use Blockchain to support the implementation of the Paris Climate Agreement, Annales des Mines, 2019. With Stéphane Voisin.
• Towards a post-carbon society, Note from the Foundation for Political Innovation, February 2019.
• Regulated tariffs for the sale of electricity: challenges and limits, Revue Française de Droit Administratif. With Claudie Boiteau. 2018
• Implementing the Paris Agreement, in Economics and Policy of Energy and the Environment, 2017. With Christian de Perthuis.
• Shale gas in France. The Power of Public Opposition: From Permits to Protests to Bans, in Shanti Gamper-Rabindran (ed.), The Shale Dilemma. A Global Perspective on Fracking and Shale Development, University of Pittsburgh Press 2017.
• Smart cities and smart mobilities, in Danielle Attias (ed.), A New Paradigm Of Mobility, Springer, 2017.
• Energy: “America great again” ?, Cyclope 2017
• COP 21: what "dynamic" for reducing emissions is the Paris Agreement opening up? The Energy Review n ° 629 - January-February 2016.
• Climate change and sustainable finance, special issue of the Financial Economics Review, co-edited with Jean Boissinot, 2015.

Main areas of expertise: Energy, climate change, networks, transport, information technology, blockchain.