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The Financial Stability Board: Unlocking the Black BoxHigh-Level Panel on the Governance of the Financial Stability Board
Jacques Mistral
Head of Economic Studies, IFRI, and member of the Conseil d’Analyse Economique to the French Prime Minister
Jacques Mistral is Head of Economic Studies at IFRI (Institut Français des Relations Internationales) since September 2007 and a member of the Conseil d’Analyse Economique (Prime Minister’s office) in Paris. He previously served as the Minister Financial Counselor to the Embassy of France in the United States (2001 to 2006). In 2008, he was elected President of the Political Economics Association – a society founded in Paris in 1846. Dr. Mistral was born in the city of Toulouse, in south-western France. He received his education at France’s Ecole Polytechnique, and he holds a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Paris I (1977). Prior to his Washington assignment, he was Special Adviser to then Minister of Economy, Finance and Industry Laurent Fabius as well as a Member of the French Council of Economic Advisers. From 1992 to 2000, Dr. Mistral held various executive positions in the AXA Group, successively: CEO Axa Marine and Aviation; EVP Asian Operations; EVP Human Resources (France); EVP Finance (France). During this period, he served as a member of the board of various Axa Companies (Paris, Melbourne, Tokyo, Seoul, Hong Kong). From 1988 to 1991, Dr. Mistral served as Economic Adviser to then-Prime Minister Michel Rocard. Prior to holding that position, he was a Senior Research Fellow at the CEPREMAP (leading Research Centre in Mathematical and Applied Economics). Dr. Mistral has had a long teaching career, as a Professor of Economics at the Ecole Nationale de la Statistique et de l’Administration Economique (ENSAE) from 1974 to 1992, at the Institut d’Etudes Politiques (1982-1996) and at the Ecole Polytechnique (1984-1994). He is the author of many articles in the fields of macroeconomics, economic policies, and international economy, and he recently published “La troisième révolution américaine” (Perrin, 2008), which was awarded the “Best economic book” prize in December 2008 and the Prize of the Académie des sciences morales et politiques in November 2009.