FRANÇOIS BOURGUIGNON

Former Chief Economist and First Vice President of the World Bank, Former Director and Professor of the Paris School of Economics



François Bourguignon is director of studies at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales. Initially trained as a statistician, he earned a Ph.D. in economics from the Uni-versity of Western Ontario and a Ph.D. from the University of Orleans. He held the position of Director of the Paris School of Economics from 2007 to the end of January 2013.

His theoretical and empirical work focuses on income distribution and redistribution in de-veloping and developed countries. He is the author of several books and numerous articles in international economic journals. He has received during his career several scientific distinctions and taught at several foreign universities. He has a wealth of consulting experience with several governments and international organizations. From 2003 to 2007, he was the chief economist and first vice president of the World Bank in Washington.

Among his recent books : "The Impact of Economic Policies on Poverty and Income Distribution: Evaluation Techniques and Tools", Oxford University Press, 2003. "The Microeconomics of Income Dynamics Distribution in East Asia and Latin America" (with F. Ferreira and N. Lustig), Oxford University Press, 2005. "The Impact of Macroeconomic Policies on Poverty and Income Distribution" (with M. Bussolo and L. Pereira), Palgrave, 2008. "Routes of the Economy world ", interviews with F. Boutin-Dufresne, Nota Bene, 2010. The globalization of inequality, Editions Le Seuil, 2012.

  • The distributional impact of Economic Policies

  • Income distribution

  • Inequality and poverty

  • Redistribution

  • Economic development - Globalization and Inequality