Claude Ménard (economist)

Claude Ménard (French: [menaʁ]; born 1944) is a Canadian economist and professor at the University of Paris I: Panthéon-Sorbonne.

Ménard is also the creator and former director of the Centre d'analyse théorique des organisations et des marchés (ATOM), which merged with the Centre d'Economie de la Sorbonne in 2009, as well as a co-founder of the Society for Institutional & Organizational Economics (formally the International Society for New Institutional Economics).

Thereafter, he moved to France, where he pursued his studies at the University of Paris I: Panthéon-Sorbonne and obtained Ph.D.s in both the history of sciences and economics with the distinction "magna cum laude" in 1974 and 1981, respectively.

[3] Following the completion of his postgraduate studies in Montréal, Claude Ménard worked from 1966 to 1974 as professor of economic history at the Collège Edouard Montpetit in Montréal, while in parallel doing research at the Canadian Museum of History (former "Museum of Man") in Gatineau, Quebec.

Moreover, Ménard has been an international associate of the Institute of Water Policy of the National University of Singapore since 2009 and a senior research fellow at the TU Delft since [4] In 1991 Ménard founded the Centre d'analyse théorique des organisations et des marchés (ATOM) at the Sorbonne and directed it until its merger with the Centre d'Économie de la Sorbonne in 2009.