[7] He was elected vice president of the French Parliamentary Office for the Evaluation of Scientific and Technological Choices in July 2017.

[8] After attending the Lycée Louis-le-Grand, Villani was admitted at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris and studied there from 1992 to 1996, after which he was appointed an agrégé préparateur at the same school.

[9] He received his doctorate at Paris Dauphine University in 1998, under the supervision of Pierre-Louis Lions, and became professor at the École normale supérieure de Lyon in 2000.

[12] On 19 October 2014, in the context of the Cultural Services of the French Embassy's inaugural Albertine festival, Villani appeared in conversation with the Nobel Prize winning mathematician John F. Nash, Jr.[13] Several months later, on 23 May 2015, Nash, along with his wife, Alicia died in a car crash.

[15] He has worked on the theory of optimal transport and its applications to differential geometry, and with John Lott has defined a notion of bounded Ricci curvature for general measured length spaces.

He presided the jury of Digital In-Pulse, a startup program dedicated to accompany entrepreneurs and start-upers, managed by chinese corporate Huawei.

The magazine also says that Villani is still the President of the dotation funds of the french Henri Pointcaré Institute, and Huawei is among the top private donators[27].

Villani declined to comments at journalist's request, the article indicate that french counter-intelligence service presented him as "too naïve" regarding those opportunities.