Marc-Olivier Strauss-Kahn

Director General and Special Advisor to the Governor of the Banque de France

Marc-Olivier Strauss-Kahn is Director General and Special Advisor to the Governor of the Banque de France (BDF). He chairs the Scientific Council and Steering Committee of the future “City of Economics and Money”, a Paris Museum project financed by the BdF to contribute to the economic education of the public. He is also a member of the Board of Universcience-Partners. From 2001 to 2017, he was Director General, in charge of the Directorate General, Economics and International (DGEI), except from 2008 to 2011 (see below). He was also the Vice-Chair of the BdF Foundation for Research. From 2008 to 2011, he was the French Executive Director at the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) where he represented several European countries; in addition, he was “Visiting Senior Fellow” at the Peterson Institute for International Economics (PIIE), all institutions located in Washington, USA. Before holding the latter positions, he had worked at the IMF, the OECD, the BIS, and the US Federal Reserve Board, as well as –during half of his career– at the BdF. He was the French Member or Alternate in various international or European bodies, such as the BIS Board, the OECD WP3, G7-G20-IMFC meetings or the Economic & Financial Committee and the International Relations Committee of the Eurosystem. He graduated in France (Public Economics at Paris X – Nanterre, Econometrics at Paris I – Sorbonne, Business at ESSEC, and Political Sciences at IEP Paris) as well as in the USA (Economics at the University of Chicago). He has taught economics, published articles and has been a member of various academic fora, including the SUERF Council (European Money and Finance Forum) and the Board of the International Journal of Central Banking (IJCB).