Marcel Boiteux
French economist, mathematician, and senior civil service member (1922–2023)
Marcel Boiteux (French pronunciation: [maʁsɛl bwatø]; 9 May 1922 – 6 September 2023) was a French economist, mathematician, and senior civil service member. He was the "architect of the French nuclear program" that created 61 nuclear reactors and kept the French electricity sector less carbon-intensive than other European countries.2
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Born May 9, 1922, died Sep 6, 2023.1
About
Boiteux joined Électricité de France (EDF) in 1949 as a student of Maurice Allais and remained there for the rest of his career. In 1959, Marcel Boiteux became the President of the Econometric Society. From 1967 through 1987, he was the director of EDF. He theorized and implemented the price of electricity at marginal cost, and was one of the architects of France's nuclear industry development.
His journey illuminates a social environment (that of scientists and senior civil services), a research process (marginal cost), a large company and its strategy, public sector career and power mechanisms, State-public-company relations, and decision-making processes on important issues such as nuclear policy.
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Companies
- Électricité de FranceChief executive officer 1967 to 198712
Early life and education
- 1942 to 1945École Normale Supérieure3
- 1945 to 1947Paris Institute of Political Studies3
- Date not recordedLycée Michel-Montaigne3
- Date not recordedLycée Pierre-Corneille3
Marcel Boiteux was born in Niort on 9 May 1922. He graduated from the Ecole Normale in 1942 and received his mathematics aggregation in 1946. In 1947, he also graduated, in the economics section, from the Institute of Political Studies in Paris.
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Career
Occupation: economist, official, professor, company director.6
- 1979 to 1987Chairperson, Électricité de France5
- 1972 to 1974President, Le Siècle5
- 1967 to 1987Chief executive officer, président-directeur général, Électricité de France4
- 1967 to 1979Director general, Électricité de France5
- 1963 to 1967Professor, École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées4
- 1962 to 1967Professor, École nationale d'administration4
- 1957 to 1962Professor, Supélec4
- Date not recordedWorked at National Center for Scientific Research4
His professional career began in 1946 when he entered the National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS), under the responsibility of Maurice Allais and having Gérard Debreu as a colleague.
Boiteux joined EDF on 1 April 1949 as an engineer in the sales department on Allais' recommendation.
Boiteux turned 100 on 9 May 2022, and died on 6 September 2023, at the age of 101.
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Personal life
Awards
- 2014Grand Cross of the Legion of Honour10
- 1991Zerilli-Marimò Prize10
- 1953Fellow of the Econometric Society10 11
- Date not recordedCommander of the French Order of Academic Palms10
- Date not recordedCroix de guerre 1939–194510
- Date not recordedGrand Cross of the Legion of Honour10
- Date not recordedGrand Cross of the National Order of Merit10
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- 1WikidataMarcel Boiteux on Wikidata
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