François Bourguignon
Global Professor of Economics
Affiliation: Visiting
Education: Statistician, Ecole nationale de la statistique et de l'administration économique, 1965-1968. DEA, Mathématiques appliquées, Université Paris-6, 1971. Ph. D in economics, University of Western Ontario, Canada, 1975. Doctorat d'Etat en économie, Université d'Orléans, 1979.
Research Areas: Development economics
François Bourguignon is an emeritus professor of economics at the Paris School of Economics. He served as the director of the Paris School from 2007 to 2013 and was previously the chief economist and senior vice president of the World Bank in Washington. Before that, he spent most of his academic career at the School for Advanced Studies in Social Sciences in Paris.
Bourguignon has authored numerous academic papers and books on poverty and inequality in both developing and advanced countries. He is actively involved in the international development community, advising leading international agencies and governments, and has received several scientific distinctions throughout his career.
His recent publications include the Institutional Diagnostic Project, a series of books published by Cambridge University Press in 2023, such as Institutional Challenges at Early Stages of Development, State and Business in Tanzania’s Development, Is the Bangladesh Paradox Sustainable?, and State Capture and Rent-seeking in Benin.