Dr. Marc Flandreau

Biography

Marc Flandreau is a world-renowned economist specializing in economic history and international money, finance, and debt. His areas of expertise encompass the international monetary system, financial crises regulation, sovereign default, and debt restructuring within the context of the geopolitics of finance. Flandreau trained at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris, obtaining his PhD from the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in 1993. He became the youngest tenured faculty member at the elite French school Sciences Po in 2001. In 2017, he was appointed Howard S. Marks Professor of Economic History at the University of Pennsylvania, where he also has a secondary appointment at the Wharton School. Flandreau has trained generations of economic historians who occupy leading positions in higher education and international organizations. His academic background is complemented by real-world experience as the chief economist at Lehman Brothers in France from 2002 to 2008. He currently chairs the Irving Fisher Committee on Long-Run Macro-Financial Data retro-prospective and contributes to the Historical Monetary Financial Statistics sponsored by the Bank for International Settlements. His published work includes numerous articles in scholarly journals and several books, and he has served on the editorial boards of major economic history journals. From 2006 to 2008, he was the president of the European Historical Economics Society. His research on the international monetary system has significantly contributed to literature and policy debates, including notable publications with Barry Eichengreen.

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