Jérôme Vignon is adviser at the Jacques Delors Institute. He graduated from the École polytechnique and the École nationale de la statistique et de l’administration économique.
He spent the first part of his professional life in various public services (Regional Mission of the Pays de Loire, INSEE Program Department, Commissariat du Plan), before returning to Jacques Delors’ cabinet in 1981, in charge of macroeconomic issues and the economic situation.
He accompanies Jacques Delors in Brussels, which led him to create and lead the Forward Studies Unit of the European Commission until 1998. After two years at DATAR as Director of Strategy, he returned to the European Commission where he was successively in charge of a white paper on European governance, then director of protection and social integration in the DG of Social Affairs.
Since 2011 he chairs the National Observatory of Poverty and Social Exclusion (ONPES). In 2015, Bernard Cazeneuve entrusted him, with the prefect Jean Aribaud, with a mission to find outlets for the situation of migrants in Calais.
As an associate member, Jérôme Vignon is also a member of the Board of Directors of several social organizations: the Habitat et Humanisme Foundation, the Jean Rhodain Foundation and the Semaines sociales de France.
PUBLICATIONS
PUBLICATIONS
The hasty return of Syrian refugees would not serve European interests

The European Pact for Migration and Asylum: what responses to the challenges of irregular migration and asylum?

A European Political Community for a Geopolitical Era

[FR] Migration: A look back at the February 9 European Council

Making migrant returns a pre-condition of trade openness

[FR] Ukrainian refugees: the next step

MÉDIAS
MEDIAS
Union européenne : les demandes d’asile en net recul en 2024

En Europe, virage à droite toute sur les questions d’immigration

Immigration en Europe : face aux tabous qui tombent, il est urgent de jouer collectif

Contrôle des frontières en Allemagne : « Elle donne le ton de la politique migratoire en Europe »

Germany’s border checks could embolden Michel Barnier’s tough-on-immigration stance

Espace Schengen : un «effet domino» redouté après le rétablissement des contrôles en Allemagne

ÉVÉNEMENTS
EVENTS
The EU’s response to Ukrainian refugees three months on

Académie Notre Europe | “Europe of migration” session [FR]

Euroquestions | Ukrainian refugees: hosting in Europe and impact on European migration policy? [FR]

Euroquestions | Migration and Asylum Pact: what progress can be made? [FR]

EUROPEAN DIPLOMACY AND THE UNION’S EXTERNAL ACTION [FR]

EU migration and asylum policy: a fresh start?

Webinaire | Nouveau pacte pour la migration : la Commission peut-elle reprendre la main sur le dossier migratoire ?
