Gérard Gaudet (Ph.D. in Economics, University of Pennsylvania), is Emeritus Professor at the Department of Economics, Université de Montréal. Before moving to the Université de Montréal in 1996, he occupied positions in the Departments of Economics at Université Laval, the Université du Québec à Montréal and the University of Western Ontario. He served as Chair of the Economics Departments at Université Laval (1978-1981 and 1994-1996) and the Université de Montréal (1997-2002).

He has been Associate Editor of the Journal of Environmental Economics and Management and of Resource and Energy Economics, and has served on the editorial boards of the Canadian Journal of Economics, the Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, L'Actualité économique, and Environment and Development Economics. He was President of the Société canadienne de science économique and of the Canadian Economic Association/Association canadienne d'économique, and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (Academy of Social Sciences). The Université de Moncton awarded him an Honorary Doctorate in 2010.   He was elected Fellow of the French Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (FAERE) in 2016 and Fellow of the Canadian Economic Association and of the Canadian Resource and Environmental Economics Association in 2021. 

His publications in natural resource economics deal with topics such as the order of exploitation of those resources, their exploitation under imperfect competition, their taxation, and certain aspects of common property exploitation. He has also published in the field of industrial organization.

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