Jean-Pierre Ponssard is emeritus research director at CNRS and associate research fellow at CIRANO. His fields of research concern economics of environment, industrial organization, and game theory. He recently co-edited two books Corporate Social Responsibility: from Compliance to Opportunity (with Patricia Crifo) and Economie du climat : Pistes pour l’après Kyoto (with Olivier Godard). Jean-Pierre Ponssard was professor of economics at Ecole Polytechnique and the head of the Laboratoire d’économétrie. He currently leads the “Business Sustainability” Research Project at Europlace Institute of Finance (EIF). In 2010 he received the excellence award from CNRS. He holds a PhD from Stanford University, and an engineer degree from Ecole Polytechnique.