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Jean Paul Fitoussi was born à La Goulette (Tunisia) on August 19, 1942. Professor Emeritus at the Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris (SciencesPo), Paris and Professor at LUISS Guido Carli University, Rome, Jean-Paul Fitoussi is also a member of the Centre for Capitalism and Society at Columbia University.

Since 2013 he is Co Chairman of HLEG (an OECD high-level group of experts) on “measurement of Economic Performances and Social Progress.

From 1995 to September 2014 he was member of the Economic Commission of the Nation.

From 1997 to 2012, he was a member of the Council of Economic Analysis of the French Prime Minister. From 1990 to 2010 he was President of OFCE.

Since 2004 he has been a member of the board of directors of Telecom Italia, since 2010 a member of the Surveillance Council of Intesa SanPaolo and for the year 2013-2014 a member of the board of directors of Pirelli S.p.A.

He has published a number of articles in international scientific journals on inflation and unemployment theories, open-economy theory, macroeconomic theory and policy, and European integration. He has also published numerous books and essays on related subjects. Among his last books are:

Mismeasuring our lives, with Joseph Stiglitz and Amartya Sen, the New Press, 2010; After the Crisis, the Way Ahead, with Edmund S. Phelps, Christopher Pissarides and al., Luiss University Press, 2010; Report on the State of the European Union, with Jacques Le Cacheux, Palgrave, 2010, Le théorème du lampadaire, Les liens qui Libèrent, 2013 (also published by Einaudi)

Jean has contributed regularly to French and foreign newspapers and is columnist for La Repubblica, Le Monde and Project syndicate.

From 2000 to 2009 he has been an expert at the European Parliament, Commission of Monetary and Economic Affairs. He was also a member of the UN Commission on the Reform of the International Monetary and Financial System and Coordinator of the Commission on the Measurement of Economic Performance and Social Progress (2008-2009).

Jean was awarded for his PhD the Prize of the Association Française de Sciences Economiques, and the Rossi Prize of the Académie des Sciences Morales et Politiques. He has again received from the Association française de sciences économiques in 2013 the Prize of the book of the year for Le théorème du lampadaire.

He has received distinctions, including Honorary Dean of the Faculty of Economics of Strasbourg, Doctor Honoris Causa from the universities of Buenos Aires and Très de Febrero, Professor Onorario of the University of Trento.

He is Officier de l’Ordre National du Mérite and Officier de la légion d’honneur in his own nation, and Grand Officier de l’ordre de l’Infant Henri in Portugal.