Pascal Lamy

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Pascal Lamy
Director-General of the World Trade Organization
Incumbent
Assumed office 1 September 2005
Preceded by	Supachai Panitchpakdi
Succeeded by	incumbent

Born	8 April 1947

Pascal Lamy (born 8 April 1947) is the Director-General of the World Trade Organization, a French political advisor, a businessman, and a former European Commissioner for Trade.

Born in Levallois-Perret, a suburb of Paris, he attended the HEC business school, the Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris (Sciences Po), and then the civil service college, the ENA, graduating second in his year of those specialising in economics.

Lamy then joined the civil service, and in this role he ended up serving as an adviser to Jacques Delors as Economics and Finance Minister and Pierre Mauroy as Prime Minister. When Delors became President of the European Commission in 1984, he took Lamy with him to serve as chief of staff, which he did until the end of Delors's term in 1994.

Lamy then moved into business in the form of Crédit Lyonnais, where he reached the level of second in command, helping to restructure and privatise the bank. In 1999, the new European Commission President Romano Prodi appointed him European Commissioner for Trade, as which he served until the end of term for the Commission in 2004.

Lamy became the President of Notre Europe in December 2004.

On 13 May 2005, Lamy was chosen as the next Director-General of the World Trade Organization, and took office on 1 September 2005 for a four-year term.