Thursday, March 19, starting at 9:30 a.m. at the Aula Magna of the Viale Pola campus, LUISS celebrated the inauguration of the academic year 2014-2015 with the conferral of an honorary degree to Professor Jean Tirole, Nobel Prize winner in Economic Sciences in 2014.
Jean Tirole is chairman of the board of the Jean-Jacques Laffont Foundation at the Toulouse School of Economics, and scientific director of the Industrial Economics Institute (IDEI) at the University of Toulouse. After pursuing engineering and mathematical studies at the Paris Dauphine University, the École Polytechnique, and the École nationale des ponts et chaussées, Jean Tirole achived a Ph.D. at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in economic theory. He has been an economics professor at MIT for several years, where he is still visiting professor.
For his research on industrial regulation, micro and macroeconomics, game theory, banking, finance, and his analysis of the regulation of natural monopolies, Jean Tirole was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences by the Royal Swedish Academy of Science in 2014.
After the conferral of the honorary degree, Professor Tirole delivered a keynote address introduced by a laudatory speech by Pier Carlo Padoan, Italian Minister of Economy and Finance. LUISS Provost Massimo Egidi, LUISS General Manager Giovanni Lo Storto and LUISS President Emma Marcegaglia also attended the ceremony.