Honorary Fellowship to economist Alain Monfort

He is recognized at an international level as one of the most important researchers and lecturers in the field of econometrics, yet, he never studied or taught in a real university in his home country of France. Trained in the oldest Grand Ecole, The Ecole Polytechnique, and also at ENSAE, Alain Monfort then chose a career at the national statistics institute, Insee.

He started teaching, always at ENSAE, in 1968 after a student strike, demanding more teachers, culminated in the opening of assistant positions. Collaborating with some of the most important econometricians of the time, Monfort began a journey of research and teaching that led to insights that helped to advance econometric studies.

In the last 40 years he has conducted his research at Insee, in particular at the Centre de Recherche en Économie et Statistique (Crest), exceeding 150 publications and writing books that are a point of reference for many students and scholars.

He's been calling Ca’ Foscari home for nearly 25 years: as a visiting professor he has held, and still holds, courses in economics for students of the International Master in Economics and Finance. Ca’ Foscari will celebrate this scholar by appointing him as an Honorary Member of the academic body (Honorary Fellowship) for his role in the scientific progress of econometrics and the contribution he has made whilst teaching in Venice over the years. A ceremony is to be held on Wednesday, October 5th at 3.30pm in Aula Baratto which will conclude with a keynote speech from Monfort on Normal and Non-Normal Structural Shocks.

Monfort has primarily led his major works with Christian Gourieroux, contributing among other things to econometrics studies of disequilibrium and rational expectations, instruments at the base of the models used by politicians and central banks.