Paul Delouvrier

Paul Delouvrier (; 25 June 1914 – 16 January 1995) was a French administrator and economist. He was awarded the Erasmus Prize in 1985, a year when the theme for the award was Urban Development.

Biography

Paul Delouvrier was born in Remiremont in the Vosges mountains of eastern France. He played an active role in the French Resistance and took part in the liberation of Paris in 1944.

Delouvrier was working in Luxembourg directing the finance division of the European Coal and Steel Community when French Prime Minister Charles De Gaulle asked him to take over from the military as his chief executive in Algeria. the French state-controlled power company. From 1979, he was President of l'Etablissement public du Parc de La Villette, the culture and science park constructed on the former abattoirs in Paris. Sometimes described as a Dutch version of the Nobel Prize, the Erasmus Prize has been awarded annually since 1958 "to a person or institution that has made an exceptional contribution to the humanities, the social sciences or the arts, in Europe and beyond."

The Paris-based Institut Paul Delouvrier was established in Delouvrier's memory. The Musée Paul Delouvrier, located in the town of Évry near Paris, was named for Delouvrier.