Jean de Kervasdoué is a French economist born on 28 December 1944 in Lannion. He is chairholder of Economics and Health Services Management at the National Academy of Arts and Trades and a member of the French Academy of Technologies. He has been a general manager of hospitals. An agricultural engineer at Institut National Agronomique Paris-Grignon, he has earned an MBA and a doctorate in socio-economics from Cornell University.