J. Paul Horne

About J. Paul Horne

J. Paul Horne has been an active independent international market economist since retiring in 2001 as a managing director and European equity market economist at Salomon Smith Barney/Citigroup in London.

Based in Paris from 1975 to 1998, he was chief international economist of Smith Barney, member of the firm’s Investment Policy Committee and board member of the firm’s European subsidiary and international fixed income asset management group. Between 1970 and 1975, he represented the Rockefellers’ IBEC financial services group in Rome and Brussels. After graduating from St. Paul’s School and Yale University (B.A.), he was an economic-financial correspondent for Newsweek and The Times (London) based in Rome.

Paul is a board member of the Global Interdependence Center in Philadelphia, the USA Foundation of the American Library in Paris, on the Editorial Board and forecasting panel of the National Association for Business Economics (NABE in Washington, DC), the Committee for the Republic in Washington, D.C. and is on the Editorial Board of The European Institute’s European Affairs. He is a member of France’s Société d’Economie Politique and AFEDE association of business economists, The Conference Board’s Council of Alumni Economists and the National Economists Club. He is a member of The University Club (New York), the Metropolitan Club (Washington) and the Cercle de l’Union Interalliée (Paris).

Mr. & Mrs. Horne live in Virginia and Paris. He can be reached at horne.jp@verizon.net.

Latest Articles

College of Central Bankers series: Investors need to be aware of the other bond bubble

GIC Board Member, J Paul Horne’s report on European and Japanese government bonds was published by The Financial Times and is used with permission.

Europe’s Parliamentary Elections Roil Europe’s Economic Outlook

GIC Board Member, J Paul Horne’s report on the results of the European Parliamentary elections was published by The European Institute at the University of Maryland (www.europeaninstitute.org/ ) and is used with permission.

Italy’s 2019 Budget Worries the EU and Global Markets

GIC Board Member, J Paul Horne’s report on the on the implications of the Italian budget battle was published by the Bertelsmann Foundation in cooperation with The European Institute at the University of Maryland.

Brexit Accelerates Business Exodus

Banks, insurers, businesses and European Union (EU) agencies based in the UK are accelerating their moves to assure full access in the EU, the world’s largest financial-economic area.

Of Politics and the Euro

GIC board member J. Paul Horne shares his comments on implications of the first round of France’s presidential election on 23 April and the likely, but not certain, outcome of the run-off between Macron and Le…

Keep ’em Guessing, Like in the Old Days

GIC Board Member Paul Horne argues that the markets today are “babied.”

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