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Sylvie Faucheux

Sylvie Faucheux
Born Sylvie Faucheux
(1960-05-29) 29 May 1960 (age 57)
Paris, France
Nationality French
Citizenship French
Education Doctorate in economy of natural environment and natural resource
Alma mater University of Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne
Occupation professor
Known for Former president of Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines University
Predecessor Dominique Gentile
Successor Jean-Luc Vayssière

Sylvie Faucheux (born 29 May 1960 in Paris) is a French professor, specializing in the economy of the natural environment and sustainable development. President of the Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines University (UVSQ) from 2002 till April 2012, she is the current president of Université du grand ouest parisien.

She studied economics and econometrics at the Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne University in 1990 before defending her doctoral thesis in environmental economics and natural resources at the same university.

Only a young graduate, she was hired as a lecturer at the Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne University in 1991. A few months later, she became a teacher at the University of Maine before being appointed professor at the Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines University in 1994, a position she still holds. In 1995 she founded and managed the Center for Economics and Ethics Environment and Sustainable Development, which became in 2002 a joint research unit between UVSQ and the Institut de Recherche Pour le Développement (IRD) (Institute of Development Research).

She is also behind the founding partnership Fondaterra (Institut Européen Pour le Développement Durable). She chaired the European Association for Ecological Economics from 1994 to 1998 before becoming a board member of the International Society for Ecological Economics. From 1994 to 2001, she was a member of the European Consultative Forum on Environment and Sustainable Development for the European presidency. Then she took responsibility of the working group on climate change. Next to her academic activities, she was a Socialist Party candidate at the parliamentary elections for the first district of Yvelines in June 2007.


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