Laurent Clozel (born 23 October 1953 in Gap, France) is a French mathematician and professor at Paris-Saclay University.
Clozel was a student at the École normale supérieure and later obtained a Ph.D. under Michel Duflo and Paul Gérardin.
[1] He received the Prix Élie Cartan of the French Academy for his work on base change for automorphic forms.
He was an invited speaker at the 1986 International congress of mathematicians in Berkeley, talking about "Base change for GL(n)".
Together with Richard Taylor, Nicholas Shepherd-Barron, and Michael Harris he proved the Sato–Tate conjecture.