Background

Career

• Research associate Centre National De La Recherche Science, Paris, 1946—1948. Rockefeller fellow, 1948—1950, Sweden, 1948—1950, Norway, 1948—1950. Research associate Cowles Commission, University Chicago, 1950—1955.
  
  Associate professor economics Cowles Foundation, Yale, 1955—1961. Fellow Center Advanced Study Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University, 1960—1961. Visiting professor economics Yale University, 1961.
  
  Professor University California, Berkeley, 1962—1984, professor Miller Institute Basic Research in Science, 1973—1974, professor mathematics, 1975—1984, professor emeritus, 1985—2004. Guggenheim fellow, visiting professor Center Operations Research and Econometrics, University Louvain, 1968—1969, visiting professor, 1971, 72, 88. Erskine fellow University Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand, 1969, Christchurch, 87, visiting professor, New Zealand, 73.
  
  Overseas fellow Churchill College, Cambridge, England, 1972. Plenary address International Congress Mathematicians, Vancouver, 1974. Visiting professor Cowles Foundation for Research in Economics, Yale University, 1976, University Bonn, 1977.
  
  Research associate Cepremap, Paris, 1980. Faculty research lecturer University California, Berkeley, 1984—1985, Class of 1958 chair, 1986—2004. Visiting professor University Sydney, Australia, 1987.
  
  Lecturer in field. With French Army, 1944-1945.

Achievements

• Achievements include incorporating new analytical methods into economic theory. Rigorous reformulation of the theory of general equilibrium.

Connections

• Son of Camille and Fernande Decharne Debreu. Married Françoise Bled, June 14, 1945 (division ). Children: Chantal, Florence.
• child: Chantal Debreu
• child: Florence Debreu
• mother: Fernande Decharne Debreu
• spouse: Françoise Bled
• father: Camille