Jacques Mistral (born September 22, 1947) is a French

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and

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. He is a member of the Council of Economic Analysis (''Conseil d'analyse économique'') in France, a member of the Cercle des économistes, and as of October 2009, a member of the scientific council of the center-right think tank ''Fondation pour l'innovation politique''.

Early life

Mistral was born in

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, France. He graduated from the

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in 1967 and earned his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Paris I in 1977.

Career

Mistral has held several professorships: from 1978 to 1992, he was a professor of economics at

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; from 1974 to 1992, at ENSAE; from 1984 to 1994, at the

; and from 1982 to 1996, at

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. He also held several posts as an economic advisor. From 1988 to 1992, he was an economic advisor for the then-prime minister, Michel Rocard; from 2000 to 2001, he was a special advisor of political economy and international relations for the Minister of Economics, Finances, and Industry, Laurent Fabius. He held several executive positions as a member of the AXA Group, including central director and director of human resources in France. He was also a senior fellow at the Kennedy School of Government at

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from 2005-2006. Mistral was president of the

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from 2008 to 2012. Currently, Mistral is the head of economic research at the French Institute for International Relations ( ''Institut Français des Relations Internationales''), a member of the Council for Economic Analysis (''Conseil d’Analyse Économique'') for the Prime Minister, and a nonresident senior fellow in Global Economy and Development at the

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. His economic interests are international economics, the international monetary system, the eurozone crisis, and the relationship between the United States, China, and the EU.

Political positions

In the French presidential election of 2012, Mistral endorsed Socialist Party candidate and eventual winner François Hollande.

References

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