André Sapir is a Belgian economist and professor at the Solvay Brussels School of Economics & Management ( Université Libre de Bruxelles). He is also a senior fellow at Bruegel, the

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-based think tank.

Professional career

Sapir holds a PhD from

Johns Hopkins University Johns Hopkins University (Johns Hopkins, Hopkins, or JHU) is a private research university in Baltimore, Maryland. Founded in 1876, Johns Hopkins is the oldest research university in the United States and in the western hemisphere. It consi ...

, where he studied with Bela Balassa. He then was an assistant professor of economics at the

University of Wisconsin-Madison A university () is an institution of higher (or tertiary) education and research which awards academic degrees in several academic disciplines. Universities typically offer both undergraduate and postgraduate programs. In the United States, th ...

, from 1977 to 1982, before returning to his native

. From 2001 to 2004 he was economic adviser to

European Commission The European Commission (EC) is the executive of the European Union (EU). It operates as a cabinet government, with 27 members of the Commission (informally known as "Commissioners") headed by a President. It includes an administrative body ...

President

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. As such, he was the coordinator of the landmark report on Europe's growth policy known as the Sapir Report. He then served until 2009 in the group of Economic Policy Advisors to Prodi's successor José Manuel Barroso. He is a member of the

King Baudouin Foundation The King Baudouin Foundation (KBF) ( nl, Koning Boudewijnstichting, KBS; french: Fondation Roi-Baudouin) is an independent, pluralistic foundation based in Brussels (Belgium). It seeks to change society for the better and invests in inspiring proj ...

’s board of trustees and chairman of its selection committee for the King Baudouin International Development Prize; and of the International Scientific Advisory Councils of the Vienna Institute for Comparative Economic Studies (WIIW), of

Centre d'Etudes Prospectives et d'Informations Internationales The Centre d'Études Prospectives et d'Informations Internationales (CEPII) is the main French institute for research into international economics. It is part of the network coordinated by the Economic Policy Planning for the Prime Minister (). Fou ...

(CEPII) in Paris, and of Fundacion Ideas in Madrid. He is also a fellow at the

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(CEPR), and a founding editorial board member of the ''World Trade Review'', published by

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and the

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Works

*''A European Mechanism for Sovereign Debt Crisis Resolution: A Proposal'', Bruegel Blueprint No. 10, Bruegel, Brussels, 2010 (with François Gianviti,

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, Jean Pisani-Ferry and Jürgen von Hagen). *''An Agenda for a Growing Europe: The Sapir Report'', Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2004 (co-authored with Philippe Aghion, Giuseppe Bertola, Martin Hellwig, Jean Pisani-Ferry,

Dariusz Rosati Dariusz Kajetan Rosati (born 8 August 1946 as Gaetano Dario Rosati) is a Polish professor of economics and a politician who served as a member of the European Parliament from 2004–2019, and subsequently as a deputy of the Sejm since 2019. Bio ...

, José Viñals,

Helen Wallace Dame Helen Sarah Wallace, Lady Wallace of Saltaire, DBE, CMG, FBA, MAE, FAcSS (born 25 June 1946 in Whalley Range, Manchester), née Rushworth, is a British expert in European studies and, by marriage to William Wallace, Baron Wallace of ...

and Marco Buti, Mario Nava, Peter M. Smith). *''Economic Policy in EMU'', Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1998 (co-authored and co-edited with Marco Buti). (Italian translation published by Il Mulino, Bologna, 1999)

Personal life

Sapir lives in Brussels. He is married to epidemiologist Debarati Guha-Sapir.http://bruegel.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/CV-Andre-Sapir-2017-January.pdf

References

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