Christian de Boissieu (born 18 March 1947) is a French professor of
economics
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at
Pantheon-Sorbonne University,
Paris
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.
Biography
Christian de Boissieu received a Ph.D. in
economics
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in 1973 at the
University of Paris-I Panthéon-Sorbonne. He was post-doctoral fellow at
Harvard University
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and
Northwestern University
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(1973–74), and visiting scholar at the
University of Minnesota
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(1978) and at the Board of Governors of the
Federal Reserve System
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(1982).
He is currently professor at
Pantheon-Sorbonne University, where he is the director of the famous master's degree in Banking and Finance, and also teaches at the
European School of Political and Social Sciences
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in
Lille
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. Moreover, he taught at the College of Europe of
Bruges
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(1999–2004).
He was consultant to the
World Bank
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and to the
European Commission
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, and has been in charge of a TACIS program mission in
Russia
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on domestic arrears,
monetary policy
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and
banking regulation
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. He is also economic adviser to the
Paris Chamber of Commerce and Industry, and member of the "Conseil National du Crédit", "Comité des Etablissements de Crédit et des Entreprises d'Investissement" (CECEI) and of the "Comité de la Réglementation Bancaire et Financière". He is honorary President of the French Finance Association and of the
Société d'Economie Politique.
He was a member of the advisory board of
J.P. Morgan
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(
France
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) and member of the advisory board of
Ernst & Young
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(France).
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Since 2003, he has been president of the "Conseil d'Analyse Économique
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" attached to the French Prime Minister
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.
He has published many books and articles in the field of monetary analysis and economic policy. He is a regular columnist for ''Le Figaro
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'', ''Le Monde
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'' and '' Les Échos''.
Publications
* ''Banking in France, Routledge, London 1990''
* ''Les mutations de l'économie française, Economica, Paris 1997''
* ''Monnaie et Economie, Economica, Paris 1998''
* ''Les mutations de l'économie mondiale, Economica, Paris 2000''
* ''Les Entreprises Françaises 2001, Economica, Paris 2001''
* ''Les Entreprises Françaises 2002, Economica, Paris 2002''
* ''Les normes comptables et le monde post-Enron, La Documentation Française, 2003''
* ''Les systèmes financiers. Mutations, Crises et Régulation, Economica Paris 2004''
* ''Les Entreprises Françaises 2004, Economica, Paris 2004''
* ''Economie contemporaine, Tome 2, Les phénomènes monétaires (with Denise Flouzat), Presses Universitaires de France, 2004''
References
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1947 births
Living people
French economists
Lycée Montaigne (Paris) alumni
Sciences Po alumni
Pantheon-Sorbonne University alumni
Academic staff of Pantheon-Sorbonne University
Harvard Fellows
Commandeurs of the Légion d'honneur
Commanders of the Ordre national du Mérite
Honorary Officers of the Order of the British Empire
Officers Crosses of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany