Jacques Mistral

Jacques Mistral (born September 22, 1947) is a French economist and professor. 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-left think tank Fondation pour l'innovation politique.[1]

Early life

Mistral was born in Toulouse, France.[2] He graduated from the École Polytechnique in Paris in 1967 and earned his Ph.D in Economics from the University of Paris I in 1997.

Career

Mistral has held several professorships: from 1978 to 1992, he was a professor of Economics at Université Paris-Nord; from 1974 to 1992, at ENSAE; from 1984 to 1994, at the École Polytechnique; and from 1982 to 1996, at Sciences Po.[3]

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 Harvard University from 2005-2006.

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 Brookings Institution.[4]

His economic interests are international economics, the international monetary system, the eurozone crisis, and the relationship between the USA, China, and the EU.[5]

Political positions

In the French presidential election of 2012, Mistral endorsed Socialist Party candidate and eventual winner François Hollande.[6]

References

  1. ↑ fr:Jacques Mistral
  2. ↑ http://www.brookings.edu/experts/mistralj?view=bio
  3. ↑ fr:Jacques Mistral#Fonctions ant.C3.A9rieures
  4. ↑ http://www.alliance-us.org/en/Page.Culture.Lecture.Mistral.aspx
  5. ↑ http://www.brookings.edu/experts/mistralj
  6. ↑ http://www.lemonde.fr/idees/article/2012/04/17/nous-economistes-soutenons-hollande_1686249_3232.html