Jean Tirole

The 2014 Nobel Prize winner in Economics is a world-renowned economist who currently serves as the research director of the Institute of Industrial Economics at the University of Toulouse in France. He also serves as a part-time professor at the University of Paris and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and has served as a visiting professor at Harvard University and Stanford University. Since 1984, he has served as the deputy editor in chief of Econometrica magazine in econometrics. At the same time, he is also an academic member of the Punas Institute of Economic Management. Tirol's main research and teaching areas include corporate finance, international finance, corporate theory, regulation and incentives, game theory, macroeconomics, and more. Born in 1953, it is not an exaggeration to use the term \genius\ to refer to Jean Tirol. After obtaining a PhD in Applied Mathematics at the age of 25, Tirol transferred to the field of economics and continued his studies under Eric Maskin at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the United States. He obtained a PhD in economics at the age of 28 in 1981. Maskin is known as the \most respected master of economics\ and was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics in 2007. Tirol was one of his first doctoral fellows.