Ivar Ekeland is Professor Emeritus at the University of Paris-Dauphine, and member of the CEREMADE. He has been a professor at the University of Paris-Dauphine from 1970 to 2003, and held the Canada Research Chair in Mathematical Economics, University of British Columbia (Vancouver) from 2003 to 2011, when he retired. He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, a member of Academia Europea, a foreign member of the Norwegian, Palestinian and Austrian Academies of Sciences, a doctor honoris causa at the universities of British Columbia (UBC), Saint- Petersbourg (FINEC) and Vienna (UW).
His research areas are convex and non-convex optimisation, Hamiltonian dynamics, symplectic geometry, micro-economics (demand functions, contracts theory) and finance (commodities markets).
