Bernard Maris was a French economist, writer and journalist who was also a shareholder in Charlie Hebdo magazine.
Graduated from Sciences Po Toulouse in 1968, Bernard Maris then earned a doctorate in economics at the University of Toulouse I in 1975. Assistant Professor (then senior lecturer from 1984) at the University of Toulouse I, he became Professor of the universities by contest of aggregation (General economic science) in September 1994 at the Institut d'études politiques de Toulouse.
At the time of his death, he was a professor at the Institute of European studies of the University of Paris-VIII. He also taught microeconomics at the the University of Iowa in the United States and the Central Bank of Peru.
Bernard Maris wrote for various journals: Marianne, Le Nouvel Observateur, Le Figaro Magazine, Le Monde and Charlie Hebdo, in which he spent most of the time under the alias of "Uncle Bernard". In this last journal, he was the Deputy Editorial Director until 2008. As the founder, during the renaissance of the title in 1992, he was an 11% shareholder.
On the radio, Bernard Maris had a weekly column entitled J'ai tout compris à l'économie, each Saturday on France Inter, and took part each Friday in a debate on a topical economic issues with the economic journalist of Les Échos, Dominique Seux, from 7:50.
He also presented on television, on the i-Télé channel where he participated as a columnist in Y'a pas que le CAC, where he commented with another professor of Economics, Philippe Chalmin (close to the neoclassical school), on the economic news until June 2009. He also intervened repeatedly in the program C dans l'air on France 5.
Bernard Maris was often presented as anti-globalization, because of his ex-participation with the Scientific Council of ATTAC.
He was an inhabitant of 16th arrondissement of Paris, and presented himself in 2002 at the elections in the 10th arrondissement of Paris under the label of Greens, to which he militated.
Bernard Maris published several novels including L'enfant qui voulait être muet, and was awarded with the Leclerc's booksellers award in 2003.