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Jean-Paul Fitoussi was born in La Goulette (Tunisia) in 1942.
Mr. Fitoussi has been a Director of Telecom Italia since May 6, 2004.
Mr. Fitoussi is Professor of Economics at the Institut d’Études Politiques in Paris, where has taught since 1982 and whose Scientific Committee he now chairs.
He is currently President of the Observatoire Français des Conjonctures Economiques (OFCE), an economic research and forecasting institute.
Mr. Fitoussi graduated cum laude in Law and Economics from the University of Strasbourg with a thesis on inflation, equilibrium and unemployment. He began his academic career as an assistant professor at the University of Strasbourg.
Between 1979 and 1983 he taught at the European University Institute, Florence, and in 1984 was visiting professor at the University of California, Los Angeles.
Since 1998 he has been a member of the board of the École Normale Supérieure.
In 1997 he became a member of the Prime Minister’s Council for Economic Analysis. In 1996 he was named to the Commission Économique de la Nation.
He was secretary of the International Economic Association beginning in 1984 and has been an expert for the Economic and Monetary Committee of the European Parliament.
Between 1990 and 1993 he was Chairman of the Economic Council of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development.
In the field of publishing, Mr. Fitoussi is managing editor of the Revue et Lettre de L’OFCE and serves on the scientific committee of the Revue Française d’Economie, the editorial board of Labour and of The International Journal of Development Planning Literature, and the scientific committee of International Labour Review and Critique Internationale.
His writing appears regularly in newspapers in France and abroad and he is commentator for La Repubblica and Le Monde.
Since 2002 he has been Director of the Fondation Nationale des Sciences Politiques.
In the field of research, Mr. Fitoussi has concentrated on inflation theory, unemployment, foreign trade and the role of macroeconomic policy.
As President of the OFCE and founder of its International Economic Policy Group (of which he is a member), he has made numerous contributions to the current economic policy debate, particularly on the issues of economic integration and transition. | 