Jean Pisani-Ferry is a Senior Fellow at Bruegel. He specialises in the economic impact of climate action, European economic policy issues and international collective action.
His research covers macroeconomic policy (including the economic implications of climate action and post-COVID recovery), global economic governance and multilateralism (examining how multilateral institutions confront global asymmetries), European integration, monetary-fiscal union, the euro area’s reform path and national policy analyses, especially French economic strategy and public-investment agendas.
He speaks English and French.
He is also a Non-Resident Senior Fellow at the Peterson Institute (Washington DC) and a Professor of Economics at Sciences Po (Paris). He serves as non-executive chair of I4CE, the French institute for climate economics. Pisani-Ferry served as Commissioner-General of France Stratégie from 2013 to 2016. In 2017, he contributed to Emmanuel Macron’s presidential bid as the Director of programme and ideas of his campaign. From 2005–2013, he was the Founding Director of Bruegel. Beforehand, he was Executive President of the French PM’s Council of Economic Analysis (2001-2002), Senior Economic Adviser to the French Minister of Finance (1997-2000) and Director of CEPII, the French institute for international economics (1992-1997).