Sylvie Faucheux (born 29 May 1960, in

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) is a French

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, specializing in the economy of the

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and

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. President of the

Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines University University of Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (, ''UVSQ'') is a French public university created in 1991, located in the department of Yvelines and, since 2002, in Hauts-de-Seine. It is a constituent university of the federal Paris-Saclay Uni ...

(UVSQ) from 2002 till April 2012, she is the current president of Université du grand ouest parisien, Professor at the French National Conservatory of Arts and Crafts (Le CNAM) from 2014 until 2017, and was Director of Academic Research and Innovation at the Research Centre of

INSEEC The INSEEC School of Business and Economics (French pronunciation: /ɪnsɛk/; French meaning of the acronym INSEEC: ''Institut des Hautes Études Economiques et Commerciales''; English: Institute of Higher Studies in Economics and Commerce) is a F ...

(

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) from 2017 until 2022.

Biography

Training

She studied

economics Economics () is the social science that studies the Production (economics), production, distribution (economics), distribution, and Consumption (economics), consumption of goods and services. Economics focuses on the behaviour and intera ...

and

econometrics Econometrics is the application of Statistics, statistical methods to economic data in order to give Empirical evidence, empirical content to economic relationships.M. Hashem Pesaran (1987). "Econometrics," ''The New Palgrave: A Dictionary of ...

at the

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in 1990 before defending her

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in environmental economics and

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at the same university.

Academic career

Only a young graduate, she was hired as a

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at the

in 1991. A few months later, she became a teacher at the

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before being appointed professor at the

in 1994, a position she still holds. In 1995 she founded and managed the Center for Economics and Ethics Environment and

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, which became in 2002 a joint research unit between UVSQ and the Institut de Recherche Pour le Développement (IRD) (Institute of Development Research).

Political activities

She is also behind the founding partnership Fondaterra (Institut Européen Pour le Développement Durable). She chaired the European Association for Ecological Economics from 1994 to 1998 before becoming a board member of the

International Society for Ecological Economics The International Society for Ecological Economics (ISEE) was founded in 1989, based heavily on the work of Herman Daly to promote ecological economics and assist ecological economists and related societies. In 1996, the Right Livelihood ...

. From 1994 to 2001, she was a member of the European Consultative Forum on Environment and

for the European presidency. Then she took responsibility of the working group on

climate change In common usage, climate change describes global warming—the ongoing increase in global average temperature—and its effects on Earth's climate system. Climate change in a broader sense also includes previous long-term changes to E ...

. Next to her academic activities, she was a

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candidate at the

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elections for the first district of Yvelines in June 2007.

President of the Versailles University

In December 2002, she was named president of the

. She was named again in 2008 until 12 April 2012, when Jean-Luc Vayssière succeeded her. In addition to its core business, she is a member of the Board of Research and Higher Education in France since 2002 and responsible, within it, of the working group on

. She is also part of the scientific board of

Cemagref The Institut national de recherche en sciences et technologies pour l'environnement et l'agriculture (IRSTEA), formerly known as Cemagref, was a public research institute in France focusing on land management issues, such as water resources and agr ...

since 2001.

Awards

Sylvie Faucheux is a chevalier of the

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(promoted 14 July 2004), a member of the

Ordre national du Mérite The Ordre national du Mérite (; en, National Order of Merit) is a French order of merit with membership awarded by the President of the French Republic, founded on 3 December 1963 by President Charles de Gaulle. The reason for the order's esta ...

(decreed 14 November 2005), a chevalier of the

Legion of Honour The National Order of the Legion of Honour (french: Ordre national de la Légion d'honneur), formerly the Royal Order of the Legion of Honour ('), is the highest French order of merit, both military and civil. Established in 1802 by Napoleon, ...

Décret du 31 décembre 2009 portant promotion et nomination
/ref> and holder of the Marianne d'Or 2009 for her actions in favor of the

Bibliography

* Sylvie Faucheux, Jean-François Noël, ''Économie des ressources naturelles et de l'environnement'', Armand Colin, 1999, 320 p. () * Sylvie Faucheux, H. Joumni, ''Économie des changements climatiques'', La découverte - slf, 2005, 128 p. () * Sylvie Faucheux, Catherine Moulin, ''T.I.C. et développement durable'', De Boeck, 2010 ()

References

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