Politician and Economist, Member of the Ecologist Party Europe Écologie Les Verts
Alain Lipietz
Born in 1947 and graduated second from the École Polytechnique, Alain Lipietz is Chief Engineer of Bridges and Highways and Research Director at CNRS. Since the beginning of his research career, he has dedicated himself to analyzing socio-economic relationships within human communities, and ...
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About Alain Lipietz
Born in 1947 and graduated second from the École Polytechnique, Alain Lipietz is Chief Engineer of Bridges and Highways and Research Director at CNRS. Since the beginning of his research career, he has dedicated himself to analyzing socio-economic relationships within human communities, and between them and their spaces, at urban, regional, national, and international levels, through several hundred articles and conferences.
He wrote the synthesis of an international study on capital-labor relations for the United Nations University, and coordinated a global team on the positions of different countries in the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (Rio 1992) on behalf of UNESCO.
Elected (Green) to the European Parliament in June 1999, he was a member of the Economic and Monetary Commission and the Employment and Social Affairs Commission of this Parliament. He participated in the intergroups on the Third Sector, WTO, and Initiatives for Peace, and is a member of the parliamentary delegation to South America and Mercosur.
Furthermore, in France, from 1997 to 2002, he was appointed to the Economic Analysis Council of the Prime Minister, the High Council for International Cooperation, the French Commission for Sustainable Development, and is a member of the Board of the Collège de France. During the primaries, he was elected by the Greens to represent them in the presidential elections of 2002. He wrote a report to the Minister of Social Affairs and Employment for the development of the social and solidarity economy.
In 2004, he was re-elected as a Member of the European Parliament. He was then a member of the Legal, Economic and Monetary Commissions as well as the International Trade Commission. He is currently the President of the Delegation for the Andean Community, Vice-President of the Euro-Latin American Parliament (Eurolat), and President of the intergroup on International Trade and Sustainable Development.
Since the end of his mandate in 2009, he has resumed his work as an economist. He is currently the delegate for Crisis and Debt of the Europe Écologie Les Verts party, and leads the Political Ecology Foundation.
He has written about twenty books published or translated into many languages. The latest: Green Deal. The Crisis of Liberal Productivism and the Ecological Response (La Découverte, 2012).