A CIRANO Researcher and Fellow since 1994, Jacques Robert is Full Professor in the Department of Information Technologies at HEC Montréal.

Holding a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Western Ontario, his research interests include applied game theory, mechanism design and experimental economics, and information technology education.

After 12 years as a professor in economics, he joined HEC Montréal in 2001. He was Director of the Department of Information Technologies of HEC Montréal between 2010 and 2016 and Associate Director of Research and Transfer from 2014 to 2019. Since June 2019, he has been Directo of the Direction de l’innovation et du développement pédagogique.

Scientific journals in which he has published include Econometrica, Journal of Economic Theory, Quaterly Journal of Economics, Journal of Applied Econometrics, Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Information & Management, Journal of the International Journal of Operational Research, Journal of the Association for Information Systems, Annals of Finance, and Neural Computation.