François Bourguignon (born May 22, 1945) is the former

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(2003–2007) of the

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. He has been the Director of the

Paris School of Economics The Paris School of Economics (PSE; French: ''École d'économie de Paris'') is a French research institute in the field of economics. It offers MPhil, MSc, and PhD level programmes in various fields of theoretical and applied economics, i ...

, and from 1985 to his retirement in 2013 a professor of economics at the

École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales The School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (french: École des hautes études en sciences sociales; EHESS) is a graduate ''grande école'' and '' grand établissement'' in Paris focused on academic research in the social sciences. The ...

in Paris. in 2016 Bourguignon was awarded the

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. He focus on the study of Income and Wealth inequality, Economy wide country studies (Brazil, China, India…), International Trade and Trade policy, Education, and Wealth, income, redistribution and tax poli
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Education

Trained as a statistician at

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(French National School of Statistics and Economics), François Bourguignon has a PhD from the

University of Western Ontario The University of Western Ontario (UWO), also known as Western University or Western, is a public research university in London, Ontario, Canada. The main campus is located on of land, surrounded by residential neighbourhoods and the Thames R ...

Selected publications

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