Nicolas Véron is a French economist. He is a Senior Fellow at Bruegel, the Brussels-based think tank, and a Visiting Fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics in Washington DC.
His policy research work has come to attention in the European financial crisis since 2007-08.[1] Véron was among the early proponents of European banking supervisory and resolution structures[2] and of a comprehensive restructuring of the European banking sector following the late-2008 financial turmoil.[3] He has also contributed to the policy debate on international accounting[4] and particularly on the governance of the International Accounting Standards Board.[5]
He writes a monthly column on business and finance which is regularly published by various national and international media including Vox-EU, De Tijd, The Globe and Mail, Caixin, La Tribune, Financial Times Deutschland, Kathimerini, La Voce, and Radikal.
Véron has been involved in the creation and development of Bruegel since late 2002, together with Jean Pisani-Ferry. Before then he had been a French civil servant, including as the corporate advisor to Labor Minister Martine Aubry in 1997-2000, and had been Chief Financial Officer of MultiMania / Lycos France, a publicly-listed French Internet company, in 2000-2002. He is an alumnus of École Polytechnique and École nationale supérieure des mines de Paris. He is also a member of the Business and Economic Advisory Group of the Atlantic Council,[6] of the Corporate Disclosure Policy Council of the CFA Institute,[7] and of the Accounting and Auditing Practices Committee of the International Corporate Governance Network.[8]
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