The Cercle des économistes' (or Circle of the economists) is a think tank

Think tank

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 in France. It was founded by Jean-Hervé Lorenzi in 1992. It currently has a membership of thirty economists and academics, both from the private and public sector, who engage in a debate on economics.

Members

Patrick Artus, Agnès Bénassy-Quéré, Jean-Paul Betbèze, Christian de Boissieu

Christian de Boissieu

Christian de Boissieu is a French professor of economics at the University of Sorbonne, Paris.-Biography:Christian de Boissieu received a Ph. D in economics in 1973 at the University of Paris-I Panthéon-Sorbonne...

, Anton Brender

Anton Brender

Anton Brender is a member of the Cercle des économistes.He is also a professor at the Paris Dauphine University, and Director of Economic Studies for the Belgian-French financial institution Dexia.-Works:...

, Pierre Cahuc, André Cartapanis, Jean-Michel Charpin, Jean-Marie Chevalier, Benoît Coeuré, Daniel Cohen, Elie Cohen, Michel Didier, Pierre Dockès, Lionel Fontagné, Marc Guillaume, Pierre Jacquet, Bertrand Jacquillat, Jean-Dominique Lafay, Jean-Hervé Lorenzi (Président), Catherine Lubochinsky, Jacques Mistral, Olivier Pastré, Anne Perrot, Jean Pisani-Ferry

Jean Pisani-Ferry

Jean Pisani-Ferry is a French economist and public policy expert. He is currently Director of Bruegel, the Brussels-based economic think tank...

, Jean-Paul Pollin, Dominique Roux, Christian Saint-Étienne, Christian Stoffaës and Daniel Vitry.

Ten of the thirty members are professors at the Université Paris-Dauphine and members of the Conseil d’analyse économique of the French Prime Minister

Prime minister

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. Four are affiliated with the Centre d'Etudes Prospectives et d'Informations Internationales (CEPII).

Participations and publications

• Organization of a lecture debates:
• Organization of the, the meet welcomed among others Francis Fukuyama
  Francis Fukuyama
  Yoshihiro Francis Fukuyama is an American political scientist, political economist, and author. He is a Senior Fellow at the Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law at Stanford. Before that he served as a professor and director of the International Development program at the School of...
  
  , Anne Lauvergeon
  Anne Lauvergeon
  Anne Lauvergeon , is a French businesswoman, and CEO of Areva 2001 – 2011 .-Biography:In 1978 she attended the École Normale Supérieure to pass the Agrégation in physics. Then she entered the Corps des Mines. In 1983 she enrolled in her first vocational course with the Corps de Mines, in the iron...
  
  , Gérard Mestrallet
  Gérard Mestrallet
  Gérard Mestrallet is the Chairman of the Board and CEO of GDF Suez.-Biography:Gérard Mestrallet was born on 1 April 1949. He graduated from the Ecole Polytechnique of Paris and the Ecole Nationale d’Administration....
  
  , Christine Lagarde
  Christine Lagarde
  Christine Madeleine Odette Lagarde is a French lawyer and the managing director of the International Monetary Fund since July 5, 2011...
  
  , Mario Monti
  Mario Monti
  Mario Monti is an Italian economist and academic who is Prime Minister of Italy, as well as Minister of Economy and Finance, since November 2011. Monti served as a European Commissioner from 1995 to 2004, with responsibility for the Internal Market, Services, Customs and Taxation from 1995 to 1999...
  
  , Denis Ranque
  Denis Ranque
  Denis Ranque is the former CEO and chairman of Thales Group. In July 2004, he was awarded an honorary CBE.-External links:*] webpage]...
  
  , Serge Weinberg
  Serge Weinberg
  Serge Weinberg is Chairman of Weinberg Capital Partners, an investment firm.He was the founder and chairman of Weinberg Capital Partners, an investment firm....
  
  , Pascal Lamy
  Pascal Lamy
  Pascal Lamy is the Director-General of the World Trade Organization, a French political advisor, a businessman, and a former European Commissioner for Trade...
  
  , Jean-Claude Trichet
  Jean-Claude Trichet
  Jean-Claude Trichet is a French civil servant who was the president of the European Central Bank, a position he held from 2003 to 2011. He is also a member of the Board of Directors of the Bank for International Settlements...
  
  , Hubert Védrine
  Hubert Védrine
  Hubert Védrine is a French Socialist politician.Diplomatic adviser of President Mitterrand, he served as secretary-general of the presidency from 1991 to 1995, then as Foreign Minister in the government of Lionel Jospin from 1997 to 2002.After the reelection of Jacques Chirac in May 2002, Védrine...
  
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• Intervention of a member of the Circle every morning of 7:40 to 7:45 on Radio Classique.
• Organization of an annual seminary on the world-wide finance with NYSE Euronext.
• Publication of Notebooks.
• Décernation of the Prix du meilleur jeune économiste de France in association with Le Monde
  Le Monde
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External links

• Official Site of the Circle