Dr. Pierre Januard

Young Scholars Award, History of Economics Society, 2021

Positions and professional activities

Vice-Dean (since June 2025) and Professor Aggregatus of economics (since January 2025),
Faculty of Social Sciences, Pontifical University of Saint Thomas Aquinas (Angelicum), Rome (Italy)
Associate Researcher in history of economic thought, PHARE, University Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (since 2018)
Managing Director, Centre d’Études du Saulchoir (since 2023) - multy-disciplinary research center, Paris (France)
Member of the team Inventaire Condorcet, University Paris 8, edition et translation of Condorcet’s letters (since 2022)
Lecturer, department of Law, Le Mans University (since 2024)
Lecturer, departments of Law-Economics-Management, Humanities, Theology, Catholic University of the West (since 2010)
Participatory Governance Committee (since 2023) and Director of Research (2019-2023),
Le Cèdre Finance Éthique, 1^st French social and solidarity-based financial investment advisor - French ESUS approval
Tutorial assistant (2021-2022) and Postdoctoral lecturer and researcher – ATER (2022-2024), Sorbonne School of Economics, University Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne
Permanent lecturer and member of academic staff, department of Theology, Catholic University of the West (2019-2021)
National treasurer, CCFD – Terre Solidaire, 1^st French development NGO - budget: 39 M€ (2017-2018)
Head of Development and Research, La Financière Responsible, SRI asset management (2016-2017), Awards: French SRI label and Agéfi innovative project award
Managing director of non-profit organisations, including The Saulchoir library, Paris (2002-2016)
Junior economist, Edmond de Rothschild Asset Management (2001-2002)
Internship, French Embassy’s economic service, Canberra, Australia (1999); Representative office, Banques populaires, Hong-Kong (1998); Foreign policy department, Le Figaro, Paris (1996)

Education

2023:

Certificate in Classical studies, Latin, upper level, first class honours, University Paris Nanterre
Qualification to the position of associate professor
French National council of universities (CNU 05 – Economics)

2022:

PhD in Economics
PHARE, Sorbonne School of Economics, University Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne
At the risk of exchange: Economic activity in Thomas Aquinas’s early works
Committee: Ragip Ege (reviewer; Beta, University of Strasbourg), André Lapidus (PHARE,
University Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne), Adriano Oliva (LEM, CNRS), Arnaud Orain (chair ; LED, University Paris 8 Saint-Denis), Nathalie Sigot (PHARE, University Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne), Richard Sturn (reviewer; University of Graz)

2017:

International Certificate in Corporate Finance, HEC Paris

2016:

French Financial Market Authority (AMF) certification

2010:

Licentia and Master in Theology, specialisation in medieval theology Summa cum laude probatus, Catholic University of Paris

Knowing God through reason in Thomas Aquinas and Benedict XVI in the challenge of Chinese otherness

2007:

Baccalaureatus in Theology, magna cum laude probatus, Lille Catholic University

The emergence of a historical school of theology, history and theological issues: M.-D. Chenu and the Saulchoir

2001:

Master (DEA) in Applied Economics, International economic relations, Sciences Po Paris

Economic openness and human development: The case of China

2000:

Bachelor (licence) and Master (maîtrise) and in Economics, University Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne

Erasmus exchange, University of Warwick, United Kingdom

English (+++), Chinese (++), Italian (++) / Latin (+++), Ancient Greek (++), Biblical Hebrew (+), Permis B, PSC 1

Research activities and publications Book

Januard, Pierre. 2025. Thomas Aquinas on Risk in Economic Activity - Mapping, Typologies, and Dynamic Structure. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan.

Peer-reviewed articles

Januard, Pierre. 2026. From Albertus Magnus to Thomas Aquinas: The discursive foundations of the risk on merchants and trade, Journal of the History of Economic Thought, forthcoming.
Januard, Pierre. 2026. Les enjeux contemporains de la pensée économique de Thomas d’Aquin, Revue thomiste, forthcoming.
Januard, Pierre. 2026. Thomas Aquinas’s bonum arduum applied to economics: towards a lexicon assuming scarcity and risk, European Journal of the History of Economic Thought, 33 (5), forthcoming.
Januard, Pierre. 2026. Thomas Aquinas on production and financing, European Journal of the History of Economic Thought, 33 (3), forthcoming.
Januard, Pierre. 2025. Is medieval economic thought ‘ecological’? The case of Thomas Aquinas, Œcomomia, 15 (1), p. 31-65.
Januard, Pierre. 2025. Is God giving or trading? Thomas Aquinas’s first use of the ‘just price’, History of Political Economy, 57 (2), p. 233-277.
Januard, Pierre. 2024. Production et échange chez Thomas d’Aquin : l’homme participe-t-il à l’œuvre de création ?, Revue des sciences philosophiques et théologiques, 108 (3), p. 499-533.
Januard, Pierre. 2024. Probability, prudence, danger: Thomas Aquinas on the building of the lexicon of risk, Journal of the History of Economic Thought, 46 (3), p. 421-442.
Januard, Pierre. 2023. Chose, activité, agents : le regard novateur de Thomas d’Aquin sur les opérations économiques, Revue des sciences philosophiques et théologiques, 107 (4), p. 641-679.
Januard, Pierre. 2022. De l’œconomia à l’échange volontaire : la délimitation de l’activité économique chez Thomas d’Aquin, Revue des sciences philosophiques et théologiques, 106 (4), p. 567-609.
Januard, Pierre. 2022. Licit and illicit risks in Thomas Aquinas’s De emptione et venditione ad tempus, Œcomomia, 12 (2), p. 233-271.
Januard, Pierre. 2022. Risky exchanges: Price and justice in Thomas Aquinas’s De emptione et venditione ad tempus, European Journal of the History of Economic Thought, 29 (4), p. 729-769.
Januard, Pierre. 2022. Risks on trade: The activity of the merchant in Thomas Aquinas’s Commentary on the Sentences, History of Economic Ideas, XXX (1), p. 47-98.
Januard, Pierre. 2021. Analysis risk and commercial risk: the first treatment of usury in Thomas Aquinas’s Commentary on the Sentences, European Journal of the History of Economic Thought, 28 (4), p. 599-634.

Book chapters

Januard, Pierre. 2026. Répondre à l’anthropocène par anticipation : besoins nécessaires, circuit court et production de la terre chez Thomas d’Aquin, in Philosophie économique à l'âge de l'anthropocène, Alexandra Hyard and Patrick Mardellat (eds), Paris: Hermann, forthcoming.
Januard, Pierre. 2025. Bonaventure et Thomas en leur monde, ou la mise en œuvre d’un thomisme historique, in Bonaventure et Thomas en leur monde : les héritiers créatifs, Cécile Coulangeon, Arnaud Montoux and Laure Solignac (eds). Paris: Cerf, p. 21-24.
Januard, Pierre. 2025. Thomas Aquinas’s ontological approach to economic activity, in Aquinas, Natural Law, and Social Ontology: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives, Ana Marta González (ed.). New York: Routledge, p. 217-233.
Januard, Pierre and Lapidus, André. 2023. Usury and simony - Trading for no price: Thomas Aquinas on money loans, sacraments and exchange, in The Routledge Handbook of Commodification, Élodie Bertrand and Vida Panitch (eds). London: Routledge, p. 120-133.

Special issue editing

Januard, Pierre and Phélippeau, Marie-Claire (eds). 2025. Thomas More, Érasme et la Réforme (5 articles), Revue des sciences philosophiques et théologiques, 109 (3), p. 377-495.
Bellion, Marc and Januard, Pierre (eds). 2025. Dévotions et piété populaire : une approche interdisciplinaire (3 articles), Revue des sciences philosophiques et théologiques, 109 (1), p. 3-56.

Book and journal reviews

Januard, Pierre. 2025. Anthropologie du don : l’apport de la théologie à travers deux ouvrages récents, note de lecture, Liautaud, Jean-Marc, En toute gratuité ?, penser la grâce sous le paradigme de l’alliance, Paris: Les Éditions du Cerf, 2023, and De Muizon, François, Une anthropologie personnaliste du don, Recherche aux sources philosophiques et théologiques de l’éthique sexuelle, conjugale et familiale, Paris: Les Éditions du Cerf, 2023, Revue des sciences philosophiques et théologique, 109 (4), p. 785-794.
Januard, Pierre. 2024. Review of Alfani, Guido. As Gods Among Men, A History of the Rich in the West, Princeton & Oxford, Princeton University Press, 2023, Oikonomia, 23 (2), p. 24.
Januard, Pierre. 2022. Review of Hirschfeld, Mary L. Thomas d’Aquin et le maché, Paris: Cerf, 2021, Œconomia, 12 (2), p. 351-356.
Januard, Pierre. 2022. Review of Santori, Paolo. Thomas Aquinas and the Civil Economy Tradition: The Mediterranean Spirit of Capitalism, London: Routledge, 2021, European Journal of the History of Economic Thought, 29 (5), p. 998-1001.
2008-2015: Revue des sciences philosophiques et théologiques: Quarterly review of journals Ciencia Tomista and Angelicum

Report for the French Ministry of Economy and Finance

Januard, Pierre. 1999. Les relations économiques et commerciales de l’Australie avec l’Asie, Paris: DREE, 120 p.

Other published works

Januard, Pierre. 2016. Rosarium Virginis Mariae : Rosaire et nouvelle évangélisation selon Jean-Paul II, in Les soutiens spirituels aux missionnaires et à la mission, Catherine Marin (ed.). Paris: Karthala, p. 229-252.
Januard, Pierre. 2009. Pour une théologie de l’incarnation de Dieu dans l’histoire (Marie-Dominique Chenu et le Saulchoir), Cahiers Saint-Dominique, 298, p. 27-39.

Refereeing for peer-reviewed journals

European Journal of the History of Economic Thought (1 review in 2020; 1 review in 2022; 2 reviews in 2023; 1 review in 2025; 1 review in 2026); Journal of Economics, Theology and Religion (1 review in 2025); Journal of the History of Economic Thought (1 review in 2021); The Thomist (1 review in 2025)