Hervé Crès, born August 31, 1967, in Paris, is a French academic, professor and former director of the Doctoral School of Sciences Po. He was provisional administrator of Sciences Po Paris between April and November 2012, before being replaced in this role by Jean Gaeremynck.[1]

Hervé Crès
Hervé Crès
Born (1967-08-31) 31 August 1967 (age 57)
Paris, France
Alma materÉcole normale supérieure
Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University
Sciences Po
University of Geneva
OccupationEconomist

Biography

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Education

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Hervé Crès was admitted to the École normale supérieure (S1987) and then to Sciences Po, from which he graduated in 1990. He then completed his doctoral studies at the Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University, where he obtained a doctorate in applied mathematics in 1994, then at the University of Geneva (PhD in economics).[2]

Career

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After obtaining his first PhD, Hervé Crès became an assistant professor of economics at the University of Pennsylvania. He left this university in 1997 to join HEC Paris, where he was director of the economics major. He became director of the doctoral school in 2004, then of the Grande école Program in 2006. Hervé Crès was then appointed deputy director of Sciences Po Paris in 2008. He was director of initial training from 2008 to 2012, succeeding Laurent Bigorgne.[3]

He was appointed provisional administrator after the death of Richard Descoings on April 3, 2012. His appointment was then contested by some of the institution's staff who demanded a "new procedure" for recruitment and election.[4] He was replaced by Jean Gaeremynck in November of the same year, pending the appointment of a general director.[5]

Seeing his application rejected at the end of 2012 by the Minister responsible for Higher Education, he says he is "collateral victim" of the emotion provoked by the revelations of the Court of Auditors report concerning the management of his predecessor Richard Descoings.[6] He resubmitted his application in 2013 but was not selected in the final list by the search committee. In the end, Frédéric Mion was appointed Director General.[7][8]

He has been a visiting professor at the University of Geneva, the University of Copenhagen and Koç University (Istanbul).[9]

He is the Dean of Social Sciences at New York University Abu Dhabi from 2014 to 2020.[10]

Books

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  • Symmetric smooth consumption externalities, Hervé Cres - Journal of Economic Theory, 1996
  • The probability of Condorcet cycles and super majority rules, Y. Balasko, Hervé Crès - Journal of Economic Theory, 1997
  • Continua of underemployment equilibria reflecting coordination failures, also at Walrasian prices, A. Citanna, Hervé Crès, J. Drèze, P.J.-J. Herings, A. Villanacci - Journal of Mathematical Economics, 2001
  • Scheduling with opting out: improving upon random priority, Hervé Crès, H. Moulin - Operations Research, 2001
  • Commons with increasing marginal costs: random priority versus average cost, Hervé Crès, H. Moulin - International Economic Review, 2003
  • Aggregation of multiple prior opinions, Hervé Crès, I. Gilboa, N. Vieille - Journal of Economic Theory, 2011

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