Marie Claire Villeval Marie Claire Villeval Marie Claire Odile Villeval (born 26 June 1957) is a French economist and research professor in economics at the National Center for Scientific Research. Marie Claire Villeval obtained her PhD in economics from the Paris-Nanterre University in 1981 and her Habilitation from the University of Lyon in 1998. She is research professor in economics at the National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) and she is affiliated with the Groupe d’Analyse et de Théorie Economique (GATE) research institute, at the University of Lyon 2, France. She has been the director of GATE from 2007 to 2016 and is
Marie-Claire Kirkland Marie-Claire Kirkland Marie-Claire Kirkland-Casgrain, (September 8, 1924 – March 24, 2016) was a Quebec lawyer, judge and politician. She was the first woman elected to the Legislative Assembly of Quebec, the first woman appointed a Cabinet minister in Quebec, the first woman appointed acting premier, and the first woman judge to serve in the Quebec Provincial Court. Born in Palmer, Massachusetts, the daughter of Charles-Aimé Kirkland (who was studying at Harvard), a Quebec MLA from 1939 to 1961, and Rose Demers, she received a Bachelor of Arts in 1947 and a Bachelor of Civil Law in 1950 from McGill University.