Philippe DeVille

DeVille started his academic career as Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of New Hampshire in 1973. In 1976 he returned to the University of Louvain, where he was Professor of Economics from 1975 to 1984. He became full professor in economics in 1989. He has been visiting professor at the University of Quebec at Montreal in 1978/79, at the St Petersburg Technical University 1991/2000. In 1986/87 he has been a fellow at the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Studies in Social Sciences in Uppsala, Sweden. And in 1991 he was visiting professor at University of São Paulo, Brazil. In 1992 DeVille was Fulbright Fellow at the University of Massachusetts and in 1998 Honorary Fulbright Fellow, Hoover Foundation at Stanford University. At UCLouvain, DeVille chaired the department of economics from 1988 to 1991 and from 1995 to 1997. In 1991/92 and 1992 to 1994 he also directed the Institut de Recherches Economiques et Sociales of the university.

Since the 1970s DeVille collaborated with Tom R. Burns and a number of other researchers, such as Walter F. Buckley, Matthew Cooper, Thomas Baumgartner, David Meeker, Bernard Gauci developing new theories in the field of social systems theory.

DeVille received his Master of Science in economics at the Université catholique de Louvain in 1967. In 1969 he went to Stanford University on a C.R.B. Graduate Fellowship of the Belgian American Educational Foundation, where in 1973 he received his PhD in Economics with a minor in Engineering Economic Systems.

Philippe R. DeVille (born August 5, 1944) is a Belgian economist, and Emeritus Professor of Economics at the University of Louvain, known for his contributions in the field of socioeconomic systems theory in collaboration with Tom R. Burns and others.