Nicolas Véron () is a French economist. He is a senior fellow at
Bruegel in
Brussels
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, which he co-founded in 2002–05, and at the
Peterson Institute for International Economics
The Peterson Institute for International Economics (PIIE), known until 2006 as the Institute for International Economics (IIE), is an American think tank based in Washington, D.C. It was founded by C. Fred Bergsten in 1981 and has been led by ...
in
Washington DC
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, which he joined in 2009. In 2012, he was included in the global
50 Most Influential list of
Bloomberg Markets
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Magazine.
Research and career
Véron is an alumnus of
École Polytechnique
(, ; also known as Polytechnique or l'X ) is a ''grande école'' located in Palaiseau, France. It specializes in science and engineering and is a founding member of the Polytechnic Institute of Paris.
The school was founded in 1794 by mat ...
and of
École nationale supérieure des mines de Paris
École or Ecole may refer to:
* an elementary school in the French educational stages normally followed by secondary education establishments (collège and lycée)
* École (river), a tributary of the Seine flowing in région Île-de-France
* Éco ...
where he received the
Corps des mines
The () is the foremost technical Grand Corps of the French State (). It is composed of the state industrial engineers. The Corps is attached to the French Ministry of Economy and Finance. Its purpose is to entice French students in mathematic ...
training. He was a French civil servant from 1995 to 2000, first in the
Prefecture
A prefecture (from the Latin word, "''praefectura"'') is an administrative jurisdiction traditionally governed by an appointed prefect. This can be a regional or local government subdivision in various countries, or a subdivision in certain inter ...
in
Lille
Lille (, ; ; ; ; ) is a city in the northern part of France, within French Flanders. Positioned along the Deûle river, near France's border with Belgium, it is the capital of the Hauts-de-France Regions of France, region, the Prefectures in F ...
then as the corporate advisor to Labor Minister
Martine Aubry
Martine Louise Marie Aubry (; née Delors; born 8 August 1950) is a French politician. She was the First Secretary of the French Socialist Party (''Parti Socialiste'', or PS) from November 2008 to April 2012, and has been the Mayor (France), M ...
in the
Jospin government. In 2000–02 he worked for publicly listed French Internet company MultiMania, later renamed
Lycos
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France, as VP Business Development then
Chief Financial Officer
A chief financial officer (CFO) is an officer of a company or organization who is assigned the primary responsibility for making decisions for the company for projects and its finances; i.a.: financial planning, management of financial risks, ...
. He then cofounded
Bruegel together with
Jean Pisani-Ferry
Jean Pisani-Ferry (born July 28, 1951) is a French economist and public policy expert. He is a fellow at think tanks Bruegel in Brussels and the Peterson Institute for International Economics in Washington, D.C. He is also a senior professor in ...
, starting in 2002.
His research focuses on banking and financial regulation, including in recent years, the European
Banking union
The European banking union refers to the transfer of responsibility for banking policy from the member state-level to the union-wide level in several EU member states, initiated in 2012 as a response to the 2009 Eurozone crisis. The motivation f ...
. He has testified before the
US Senate
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, the
European Parliament
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, the UK
House of Lords
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, the
Portuguese National Assembly, the Italian Parliament and the German
Bundestag
The Bundestag (, "Federal Diet (assembly), Diet") is the lower house of the Germany, German Federalism in Germany, federal parliament. It is the only constitutional body of the federation directly elected by the German people. The Bundestag wa ...
.
Véron became an independent board member of the derivatives arm (Global
Trade Repository) of
DTCC in July 2013. From 2014 to 2016 he was also a member of the scientific advisory board of
AMF, France's securities regulator.
Selected publications
''L'Architecture des villes'' with
Ricardo Bofill
Ricardo Bofill Levà (; 5 December 1939 – 14 January 2022) was a Spanish architect from Barcelona. He founded Ricardo Bofill Taller de Arquitectura in 1963 and developed it into a leading international architectural and urban design practice. ...
(
Odile Jacob
Odile Jacob is a French publisher who founded ''Les Éditions Odile Jacob'' in the middle of the 1980s. She is also a trained scientist, studying the workings of the brain, the mind and thought. She is a member of Le Siècle.Frédéric Saliba, 'L ...
Publisher, 1995 – )
''Smoke & Mirrors, Inc.: Accounting for Capitalism'' with Matthieu Autret and Alfred Galichon (
Cornell University Press
The Cornell University Press is the university press of Cornell University, an Ivy League university in Ithaca, New York. It is currently housed in Sage House, the former residence of Henry William Sage. It was first established in 1869, maki ...
, 2006 – )
''The Global Accounting Experiment''(
Bruegel, 2007 – )
''Le grand dérèglement – Chroniques du capitalisme financier''(Lignes de Repères, 2009 – )
''Transatlantic Economic Challenges in an Era of Growing Multipolarity'' co-editor with Jacob Funk Kirkegaard and
Guntram Wolff
Guntram Wolff is a European public policy scholar. As of September 2024, he is professor of economics at Université Libre de Bruxelles (Solvay Brussels SchoolECARES, senior fellow at Bruegel, and senior fellow at the Kiel Institute for the World ...
(
Peterson Institute for International Economics
The Peterson Institute for International Economics (PIIE), known until 2006 as the Institute for International Economics (IIE), is an American think tank based in Washington, D.C. It was founded by C. Fred Bergsten in 1981 and has been led by ...
, 2012 – )
''L'Union bancaire, un succès européen''(En Temps Réel, 2014 – )
''Europe's Radical Banking Union''(
Bruegel, 2015 – )
''European Banking Supervision: The First Eighteen Months'' co-edited with Dirk Schoenmaker (
Bruegel, 2016 – )
References
External links
Personal blogBruegel websitePeterson Institute website*
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1971 births
Lycée Louis-le-Grand alumni
Corps des mines
French economists
Peterson Institute for International Economics
Bruegel (think tank) people
Living people