# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/michel-balinski
# Generated: 2026-08-14T14:22:30.917Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/michel-balinski"
name: "Michel Balinski"
slug: "michel-balinski"
description: "Michel Louis Balinski was an American and French applied mathematician, economist, operations research analyst and political scientist. Educated in the United States, from 1980 he lived and worked in France. He was known for his work in optimisation, convex polyhedra, stable matching, and the theory and practice of electoral systems, jury decision, and social choice. He was Directeur de Recherche de classe exceptionnelle (emeritus) of the C.N.R.S. at the École Polytechnique (Paris). He was awarded the John von Neumann Theory Prize by INFORMS in 2013."
tagline: "Swiss-born Polish mathematician"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Balinski_pukelsheim_brams.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1933-10-06"
deathDate: "2019-02-04"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           39.64
  momentum:             0.5357142857142858
  historical:           5.475882666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Michel Balinski"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%AA%D8%B4%D9%8A%D9%84_%D8%A8%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%B3%D9%83%D9%89"
    title: "ميتشيل بالينسكى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micha%C5%82_Ludwik_Bali%C5%84ski"
    title: "Michał Ludwik Baliński"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_Balinski"
    title: "Michel Balinski"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_Balinski"
    title: "Michel Balinski"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump