J. Paul Horne

Independent International Economist & GIC Board Member

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

Chief international economist of Smith Barney in Paris from 1975 to 1998, Paul served on SB’s Investment Policy Committee and as a director of the European subsidiary and international asset management group. From 1970 to 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) in Rome.

Paul is a board member of the: Global Interdependence Center, USA Foundation of the American Library in Paris, and Committee for the Republic in Washington. He is on the Editorial Board and forecasting panel of the National Association for Business Economics (NABE) in Washington, DC, and 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 National Economists Club, The University Club (New York), Metropolitan Club (Washington) and Cercle de l’Union Interalliée (Paris).

Essays published by The European Institute include: “The Economic Underpinnings of French Discontent”; “Syriza Challenges the Euro-Austerians”; “ ‘Bond Vigilantes’ approve ECB-EBA stressing Euro banks”; “Greece Taps the Market”; “The Euro at Age 15 — Is it a Reserve Currency Yet?”; “Perspectives: Choppy Atlantic Waters Ahead ?”; and “Thank you, Greece, for saving the Euro”.  His 2002 analysis of “Enronitis” corporate corruption won a NABE award. His 1971 Institutional Investor magazine cover report on Vatican finances received worldwide attention as the first such report published with official Vatican cooperation.

Mr. & Mrs. Horne live in Virginia and Paris. Contact:  Horne.JP@verizon.net or jeanpaulhorne@orange.fr .