Who am I ? > Associates
Jean-Marc JANCOVICI
Consultant
WHEN I WAS (VERY) YOUNG...
- I graduated from École Polytechnique (1984)
- And then from École Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications de Paris (1986).
WHAT KEEPS ME BUSY TODAY
- Climate change ; greenhouse gases inventories
- Energy use
OTHER TOPICS FOR WHICH I CAN BOAST KNOWING A LITTLE
SOMETHING
- Various other topics related to environment
- Micro-economic modeling,
- Information technologies,
- French acounting and French law
WHAT DO I DO TO FILL UP MY FRIDGE ?
- Studies
- Project management
- And many other things...
WHAT DO I DO THOUGH IT SELDOM FILLS UP MY
FRIDGE ?
- Associate Professor with Mines ParisTech
- Lectures and conferences (more than 500, oh boy do I probably have becomed a boring old thing !)
WHAT DO I DO THAT RATHER EMPTIES MY
FRIDGE ? (BUT I LIKE IT, YES I DO)
- Founder and president of The Shift Project
- Co-founder et co-organizer of the Entretiens de Combloux, first winter school in France (and in the world ?) for editors in chief on energy and climate change issues
- Member of the Independent Expert Panel of the Ellen MacArthur Foundation
- Occasional member of various public commissions in France
BOOKS (in French only, alas)
- Changer le Monde, Tout un programme !, Calmann-Lévy, May 2011
- With Alain Grandjean, C'est maintenant !, 3 ans pour sauver le monde Editions du Seuil, January 2009
- Le changement climatique expliqué à ma fille, Editions du Seuil, January 2009 (translated in 6 langages, but English is not one of them !)
- With Alain Grandjean, Le Plein s'il vous plait ! Editions du Seuil, February 2006
- With Hervé Le Treut : L'effet de serre, allons nous changer le climat ? Flammarion Champs, March 2004
- L'avenir climatique : quel temps ferons nous ? Editions du Seuil, March 2002 (Roberval Prize 2002)
MEDIA
- various articles
- From December 2009 to June 2011, a weeckly chronicle on the French leading news radio, France Info
- Since December 2009, a monthly presentation of the carbon footprint of the French on the evening news of TF1 (leading TV network) and Metro (main free newspaper).
DO I KNOW WHERE IS THE START BUTTON ON A COMPUTER ?
- I can handle a Mac or a Windows PC,
- Familiar with Microsoft Office, and personal web site authoring.
SPOKEN LANGUAGES
- French (mother tongue)
- English (I wrote all you will find on this site, mistakes and clumsy attemps to be funny included, so you can judge by yourself !)
- Russian (some very old remains from high school, but I still know how to say "vodka"..)
A COUPLE OF OLD REFERENCES
AND...
- I should care about future generations, since I have contributed twice to its increase...
- Military service (mandatory at the time...) : deputy commander of a fighting unit (about 100 people) in alpine troops.
- Mens sana in corpore sano...