Richard Loulou

Richard Loulou has 31 years of experience in Algorithmics, Operations Research and Modeling applied to technical/economic systems such as energy systems and the Environment. In the past 11 years, he has generated and managed or co-managed several projects to model and analyze Energy/Environmental systems in Canada, the USA, India, Colombia, and Europe. Most of these projects involved analyzing the impacts of air emission reduction policies (more particularly Greenhouse Gas reduction policies) on a country, a province, or a region. Recent projects have focused on the short, medium, and long-term impacts of the Kyoto Protocol on economies, particularly in Canada, where HALOA INC is main consultant for the National Climate Change implementation Process (NCCP) of the Canadian Federal government. He and his team also analyzed provincial impacts of GHG policy on the electricity generation sector of Canada, and on provincial energy economies (Alberta, BC). Professor Loulou and his colleagues at KanORS and HALOA team developed and operate the MARKAL model. Richard Loulou is one of a small group of modelers who undertook to create a new model, TIMES, which extends and improves on the MARKAL paradigm.

Professor Loulou has multi-year experience in developing GHG abatement models with large data-bases, and in conducting economic analyses of measures to reduce GHG and air contaminant emissions, both at the national and the international levels. He has extensive experience in modeling complex, multi-sector and multi-regional emissions, and in using these models to conduct evaluations of measures and actions aimed at reducing emissions of multiple pollutants. He also has extensive experience in conducting outreach activities in this domain, both in developed and in developing countries. As a testimony to these accomplishments, Professor Loulou has served as the Canadian representative and Lead Author to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), Third Assessment Report.

Education
PhD Operations Research, University of California, Berkeley : 1971
Doctorat d'Etat Applied mathematics, Université de Grenoble, France : 1978
MSc Operations Research, University of California, Berkeley : 1968
BSc Mathematics, Ecole Polytechnique, Paris, France: 1966

Experience Record
2001-Present Professor Emeritus, McGill University
1998-Present Canadian representative and Lead Author to the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), Third Assessment Report
1987-Present President, HALOA Inc.
1982-1992 Founding member, Director 1988-1992, GERAD (inter-university research center based in Montreal, Canada, in Decision Analysis and Operations Research)
1970-2001 Professor of Management Science, Faculty of Management, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
1966-1967 Second Lieutenant, French Army

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