Jean Paelinck

Jean Henri Paul Paelinck (born 4 July 1930)[1] is a Belgian economist and Distinguished Service Professor in the Schar School of Policy and Government at George Mason University.

[2] Paelinck earned his Doctor of Law degree maxima cum laude from Belgium's University of Liège in 1953, and his master's' degrees from the same institution the following year.

He was a research student in the Department of Applied Economics at Cambridge University from 1958 to 1959, where he worked with Richard Stone.

[1] In 2014, the Regional Science Association International (RSAI) created the Jean Paelinck Award in Regional Science in honor of Paelinck, who was one of the organization's four founding fellows.

Paelinck was named a Knight of the Order of the Netherlands Lion in 1994, and received the RSAI Founder's Medal in 1996.