Relatives, colleagues and friends
I'm here to share the sadness for the loss of Denise and to convey a tribute to Denise. I do this personally, as a colleague for
more than 20 years now, and on behalf of the colleagues working with
MARKAL-TIMES models.
Initially Denise was a good colleague of all of us at
work, focused on improving the common modelling tools. Denise was carrying the
understanding of a full blood economist to a community mainly of engineers. The
colleagues will remember her as a very dynamic and dedicated person who brought
high level theoretical but still practical contributions to the ETSAP
community.
With the years the pleasure to work with Denise became
friendship. We will remember most her warmth, openness, good nature and
pleasantness. On behalf of those friends – Amit, Richard, Maurizio, Socrates,
Evasio, Kathleen, Maryse, Francis to mention a few – I convey the you our
respect and sympathy.
I convey as well the admiration of dozens of young
economists and engineers who from Denise learnt the art of modelling. Young
women in particular were inspired by the strong,
intelligent and hard-working woman she was. And as one of the young
researchers reminded me, he learnt to put aside secondary issue to get to
essential from Denise's repeating him: "Non mais ça ce n'est pas important
ça!".
(on behalf of ETSAP, read at the funeral held in Brussels, Uccle Crematorium, on February 27, 2013)