Jean-Robert Pitte - Curriculum vitae#
Full CV
(in French)
Born: August 12th 1949 in Paris
Professional address: Université Paris-Sorbonne (Paris IV) 1, rue Victor Cousin. 75005 PARIS, Tel. 33 1 40 46 25 29
Actual functions:
- Full Professor of Geography, University Paris-Sorbonne since 1988
- President of Société de Geographie
- Member of Institut de France (Acédémie des Scienees Morales et Politiques)
Academic Cursus:
- 1966-70 : Student in geography at Sorbonne
- 1971 : Agrégation de géographie
- 1975 : Doctorat de 3e cycle
- 1986 : Doctorat es-Lettres
Career:
- 1971-72: Professor at Lycée Chaptal (Paris)
- 1972-74: Professor at Normal University of Nouakchott (Mauritania)
- 1974-1988: Assistant, then Lecturer and Senior Lecturer in Geography at Sorbonne since 1988: Professor at Sorbonne
- 1988-91: Director of Institute of Urbanism and Planning
- 1991-93: Director of Department of Geography
- 1992-2000: President of the French National Committeee of geography : representation near IGU (International Geographical Union)
- 1993-95: Head of the Mission for universitary map (geographical planning of the Higher Education Ministry)
- 1997-2001: Vice-President of University of Paris-Sorbonne.
- 2003-2008: President of University of Paris-Sorbonne.
Distinctionss:
- Chevalier de la Légion d’Honneur
- Officier de l’Ordre National du Mérite
- Officier des Palmes Académiques.
- Officier des Arts et Lettres
- Member of Institut de France (Académie des Sciences morales et politiques)
- Member of Academia Europeae
- Member of Académie des Sciences d’Outre-Mer
- Member of Académie du Vin de France, Académie du Vin de Bordeaux, Académie des Sciences, Arts et Belles-lettres de Dijon.
- Doctorate Honoris Causa Universities of Tel Aviv (Israel), Iasi. (Roumania), Tbilissi (Georgia).
