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C茅dric Villani is a French mathematician, researcher and politician. He studied mathematics at the 脡cole Normale Sup茅rieure in Paris and has taught in Paris, Lyon, Atlanta, Berkeley, and Princeton. In 2009 he became head of the Henri Poincar茅 Institute, one of the oldest research institutes in the world in mathematics and theoretical physics. He has served as a member of the scientific boards of EDF, Orange and the Boston Consulting Group.

Villani has received several national and international prizes for his research, including the Fields Medal in 2010, for his work on Landau damping and the Boltzmann equation. His main research interests include kinetic theory (Boltzmann and Vlasov equations and their variants) and Optimal Transport and its applications, a topic about which he has written in聽Topics in Optimal Transportation聽(2003) and聽Optimal Transport, Old and New(2008). Villani belongs to the editorial boards of聽Inventiones Mathematicae, the聽Journal of Functional Analysis聽(JFA), the聽Journal of Mathematical Physics聽(JMP), and the聽Journal of Statistical Physics聽(JSP). He is vice-president of the pro-European think tank EuropaNova and president of Musa茂ques Association.

He has been a Member of Parliament for Essonne since June 2017 and sits on the Law Commission. He chairs the Parliamentary Office for the Evaluation of Scientific and Technological Choices (OPECST) of the National Assembly and the Senate in France.