Jean Pisani-Ferry (born July 28, 1951)[1] is a French economist and public policy expert. He is a fellow at think tanks Bruegel in Brussels and the Peterson Institute for International Economics in Washington, D.C. He is also a senior professor in economics and public management at the Hertie School of Governance in Berlin,[2] and a professor at the European University Institute near Florence.
Jean Pisani-Ferry | |
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| Born | July 28, 1951 |
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| Field | Political economy |
| Alma mater | University of Paris Supélec |
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He served as Commissioner General for Policy Planning under Prime Minister Manuel Valls.[3]
Prior to this appointment, he was Director of Bruegel, the Brussels-based economic think tank,[4] which he had co-founded in the early 2000s together with Nicolas Véron.[5] He was also a professor of economics with Université Paris-Dauphine.[4]
Since 2010, he has written monthly columns for international media organization Project Syndicate.[6]
Early life and education
editBorn in 1951, the son of politician Edgard Pisani and historian Fresnette Pisani-Ferry, Jean Pisani-Ferry initially trained as an engineer. He has a Master in mathematics. He has an advanced economics degree from the Centre d'études des programmes économiques (CEPE, Paris)[7] and a Master's Degree in Engineering from Supélec.
Career
editEarly on he held positions in research and government in France.[7] Pisani-Ferry joined the European Commission in 1989 as economic adviser to the European Commission,[5] specifically the Director-General of DG ECFIN.[7]
From 1992 to 1997 he was the director of CEPII, a French economics research centre.[5] In 1997, he became senior economic adviser to the French minister of Finance and was later appointed executive president of the French prime minister's Council of Economic Analysis (2001–2002).[5] He served as senior adviser to the director of the French Treasury from 2002 until 2004.[7] In 2005 and until 2013 he was the founding director of the think tank Bruegel in Brussels.[5] He was president of the French economic association from 2006 until 2007.[7]
From December 2011 until May 2012, Pisani-Ferry served as member of the Jacques Delors Institute’s Tommaso Padoa-Schioppa group, a high-level expert group to reflect on the reform of the Economic and Monetary Union of the European Union.[8] From 2013 until the end of 2016, he was the Commissioner-General of France Stratégie, which is the French government's ideas lab.[5]
Since October 2017, he holds the Tommaso Padoa-Schioppa Chair in European Economic and Monetary Integration at the Robert Schuman Centre, European University Institute.[9] He in 2019 co-wrote the book "Global Governance: Demise or Transformation?" with George Papaconstantinou for the Trans European Policy Studies Association.[10] Early in 2017, he was the Director of programme and ideas of Emmanuel Macron's presidential bid in France.[5]
Pisani-Ferry has taught at universities such as Ecole polytechnique in Paris and Université libre de Bruxelles.[7]
Pisani-Ferry has a regular column in Le Monde and Handelsblatt. He has written recently for publications like El Tiempo[11] and Project Syndicate.[12] He spoke at the fifteenth Trento Festival of Economics in May 2020.[13]
Other activities
edit- European Council on Foreign Relations, Member
- Berggruen Institute, Member of the Council for the Future of Europe
- Peterson Institute for International Economics, Member of the Advisory Committee
References
edit- ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2010-07-06. Retrieved 2010-05-21.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ^ Jean Pisani-Ferry, Minda de Gunzburg, retrieved June 11, 2020
- ^ Direction Generale, France: France Strategie, retrieved June 11, 2020
- ^ a b Person - Jean Pisani-Ferry, VOX CEPR Policy Portal, archived from the original on April 12, 2016, retrieved June 11, 2020
- ^ a b c d e f g Jean Pisani-Ferry, European University Institute, retrieved June 11, 2020
- ^ "Jean Pisani-Ferry - Project Syndicate". Project Syndicate. Retrieved 2017-10-18.
- ^ a b c d e f Jean Pisani-Ferry, Berggruen Institute, retrieved June 11, 2020
- ^ Tommaso Padoa-Schioppa Group Archived 2016-12-30 at the Wayback Machine Jacques Delors Institute.
- ^ Tommaso Padoa-Schioppa Chair in European Economic and Monetary Integration, European University Institute
- ^ "Global Governance: Demise or Transformation?", George Papaconstantinou and Jean Pisani-Ferry (RSCAS-EUI, Italy), TEPSA Trans European Policy Studies Association, October 28, 2019, retrieved June 11, 2020
- ^ Jean Pisani-Ferry, El Tiempo, retrieved June 11, 2020
- ^ Pisani-Ferry, Jean (May 29, 2020), The Uncertain Pandemic Consensus, Project Syndicate, retrieved June 11, 2020
- ^ Festival of Economy, Europe and Italy at the time of the coronavirus: Tito Boeri dialogues with Paolo Gentiloni and Vittorio Colao. The direct, News 1 Italy, May 30, 2020, retrieved June 11, 2020