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Michel Balinski
MICHEL BALINSKI, a Williams graduate, studied economics at MIT and mathematics at Princeton. He has taught at Princeton, University of Pennsylvania, the CUNY Graduate Center, Yale, and SUNY Stony Brook. Since 1982 he has been Directeur de Recherche de classe exceptionnelle of the CNRS at the École Polytechnique, Paris. He has enjoyed short-term appointments elsewhere, including Santa Monica, Ann Arbor, Paris, Lausanne, Grenoble, Vienna, Mexico City, and Santiago. He is the founding editor of Mathematical Programming, and a past President of the Mathematical Programming Society. His principal current interests are the theory and applications of ranking and the design of fair electoral systems.