Gérard de Pouvourville Nationality: French Born January 18, 1950 in

Gérard de Pouvourville
Nationality: French
Born January 18, 1950 in Paris, France
Initial training
1978. PhD, Business management and industrial economics, Université d'Aix-Marseille II
1974. DES (MSc), Economy, Université Paris I, Panthéon-Sorbonne
1973. Graduate from Ecole Polytechnique
Language skills
English, spoken, written (4 years in Canada)
Portuguese, spoken
Present Position
Professor, Chair of Health Economics and Management, ESSEC Business School.
Past positions
1., Director, Centre for Health Economics and Administration Research
(INSERM/CNRS)
2. Chief of the Health Economics Department, Institut Gustave Roussy, Centre for Cancer Treatment,
Villejuif.
3. Member of the Scientific Council, Centre de Recherche et de Documentation en Economie de la
Santé (CREDES)
4. Associate Professor, University Paris Sud, in charge of the Health Economics Masters
Program.
5. Member of the Board f Administrators, the French National Institute for Health and Medical
Research (INSERM)
6. Member of the editorial board, European Journal of Health Economics.
7. Member of the editorial board, Health Management Science
8. Member of the editorial board, Sciences Sociales et Santé
9. Scientific Advisor, Ministère de la Santé et de l’Assurance Maladie
10.Member of the board, CES (French Health Economist Association).
11. Consultant in pharmacoeconomics for the drug industry
12. Scientific Advisor to IQWIG ( German Institute for Quality and Efficency in Health Care)
Fields of interest
Health care financing
Health care planning
Health care policy
Assessment of medical technology ; pharmacoeconomics
Past Experience
1973-1977. Doctoral student, Ecole polytechnique, Paris; assistant in economics, Ecole polytechnique.
1974. Consultant for the OECD, « Policies for Innovation in the Service Sector »
1976-1977. Assistant, economics, Ecole Nationale du Génie Rurale et des Eaux et Forêt
1978-1980. Research Assistant, Centre de Recherche en Gestion, Ecole polytechnique
1979-1980. Part-time assistant-professor, Institut Auguste Comte pour l'Etude des Sciences de
l'Action.
1981-1989. Research Assistant, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), attached to the
Centre de Recherche en Gestion, Ecole polytechnique.
1982-1994 Consultant, Direction des Hôpitaux, Ministère de la Santé (Hospital Direction, Ministry of
Health)
1982-1984 Consultant, Direction Générale de la Santé, Ministère de la Santé. (Public Health
Direction, Ministry of Health ).
1984. Visiting research scientist, Leonard Davis Institute for Health Economics, University of
Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.
1985-1993. Member of the editorial board, Gérer et Comprendre
1986 Visiting research scientist, Groupe de Recherche Interdisciplinaire en Santé (GRIS), Université
de Montreal, Canada. Expert, Commission d'Enquête sur les Services Sociaux et de Santé,
Gouvernement du Québec.
1986-1993. Associate Professor, Université Paris IX Dauphine.
1989- 1997 Research Director, CNRS
1989-1992 Associate Senior Research Scientist, Groupe IMAGE, Ecole Nationale de la Santé
Publique.
1992- 1993 Member, Prospective Commission on the French Health System, Commissariat Général au
Plan (National Planning Commission).
1992-1996 Assistant Professor, Faculté de Médecine Saint-Louis-Lariboisière, DEA (MSc) Système
Hospitalier et Société.
1991-1995 Member, Scientific Council, INSERM (Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche
Médicale)
1992-1993 Chairman, Scientific Council, Grant Commission for research on the economic evaluation
of medical strategies, Ministère de la Recherche.
1993-2000 Scientific Director, Groupe IMAGE, Ecole Nationale de la Santé Publique ( national
School of Public Health).
1995-2000 Member of the Scientific Board, Ecole Nationale de la Santé Publique.
2000-2003 Vice-Chairman of the National Observatory on Drug Prescription
2000-2005 Chairman, Collège des Economistes de la Santé (French Health Economists Association)
2005 Invited expert, Ministry of Health and Welfare, Alberta, Canada.