Patrice GEOFFRON

Bio

Present positions 

• Professor of Economics, University Paris Dauphine
• Director, Laboratory of Economics in Dauphine (LEDa) & Center of Energy Economics (CGEMP).
• Member of the Scientific Council, Smart-Grids France
• Co-editor, Economics and Policy of Energy and the Environment
• Editorial board: International Journal of Management and Network Economics, Revue de l’Energie.
• Member of the Board of Directors of the French Energy Council
• International Energy Association of Energy Economics, World Council Member
• European Distribution System Operators’ Association for Smart Grids, Stakeholders and Innovation Council, Member.

Positions’ held

• International Vice President, Paris-Dauphine University
• Director of the Dauphine Economics Laboratory
• Professor at the University of Reims and Paris XIII
• Visiting professor at the universities of Todai (Tokyo), Fudan (Shanghai) and Bocconi (Milan)
• Energy Expert at the World Bank / ICSID Arbitral Tribunal.
• Chronicler in the World (1997-2007).

Education

Agrégation in Economics
PHD in Economics (award of the best PhD Thesis, National Association of PhDs in Economics).

Main publications

• Meeting the Paris Mandate: A Cross-national Comparison of Energy Policy-making, with Lorna Greening and Raphael Heffron (eds.), Springer, to be published (2020).
• What scope for environmental taxations and incentives ?, in Economics and Policy of Energy and the Environment, 2019.
• Low carbon economy and smart grids, Routledge Handbook of Energy Economics, 2019. Avec Cédric Clastres.
• How to use the Blockchain to support the implementation of the Paris Climate Agreement, Annales des Mines, 2019. Avec Stéphane Voisin.
• Towards a post-carbon society, Note de la Fondation pour l’Innovation Politique, février 2019.
• Regulated electricity sales tariffs: issues and limits, Revue Française de Droit Administratif. Avec Claudie Boiteau. 2018
• Implementing the Paris Agreement, in Economics and Policy of Energy and the Environment, 2017. Avec Christian de Perthuis.
• Shale gas in France. The Power of Public Opposition: From Permits to Protests to Bans, in Shanti Gamper‐Rabindran (ed.), The Shale Dilemma. A Global Perspective on Fracking and Shale Development, University of Pittsburgh Press 2017.
• Smart cities and smart mobilities, in Danielle Attias (ed.), A New Paradigm Of Mobility, Springer, 2017.
• Energy: “America great again »?, Cyclope 2017
• COP 21: on which “dynamics” of emission reduction does the Paris Agreement open up?, La Revue de l’Énergie n°629 – janvier-février 2016.
• Climate change and sustainable finance, numéro spécial de la Revue d’Economie Financière, co-dirigé avec Jean Boissinot, 2015.

Economic field of expertise 

Economics of energy and climate change, networks and telecommunication economics, industrial economics.