Pascal Lamy

CHAIR OF THE STEERING GROUP OF THE PARIS PEACE FORUM

DIRECTOR-GENERAL OF THE WORLD TRADE ORGANIZATION (2005-2013)

Pascal Lamy served two terms as Director General of the World Trade Organization (WTO) from September 2005 to September 2013.

He graduated from the Ecole des Hautes Etudes Commerciales (HEC) in Paris, the Institut d’Etudes Politiques (IEP) and the Ecole Nationale d’ Administration (ENA).

He began his career in the French civil service at the General Inspectorate of Finance and at the Treasury. In 1981 he became advisor of the Minister of Economy and Finance, Jacques Delors, then Deputy Head of Prime Minister’s Pierre Mauroy cabinet in 1983.

Between 1985 and 1994, Pascal Lamy was Head of the President of the European Commission’s Cabinet, Jacques Delors, and its “sherpa” at the G- 7.

In 1994 he joined the team in charge of the recovery of the French bank Crédit Lyonnais then becoming its CEO up to its privatization in 1999. He then returned to the European Commission as Commissioner for Trade (1999-2004).

After his mandate in Brussels, for a short sabbatical period Pascal Lamy chaired “Notre Europe” ( now “Institut Jacques Delors”), a think tank created by Jacques Delors that focuses on European integration. He also became associate professor at the Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris and advisor to Poul Nyrup Rasmussen, President of the European Socialist Party.

Pascal Lamy explained his commitment to the European Union and argued for ”harmonizing” globalization through several publications:

• Où va le monde ? (with N Gnesotto and JM Baer, Odile Jacob, 2017)
• Quand la France s’éveillera (Odile Jacob, 2014)
• The Geneva Consensus, (Cambridge University Press, 2013)
• Now for the Long Term (Report of the Oxford Martin Commission for Future Generations, 2013)
• La Démocratie-monde – Pour une autre gouvernance globale (Seuil, 2004)
• L’Europe en première ligne (Seuil, 2002)
• L’Europe de nos volontés (with J. Pisani- Ferry, Plon, 2002 The Europe we want, Arch Press / The Policy Network, 2002)
• Report “Monde-Europe“, chaired by P. Lamy in the XIth plan of the Commissariat général du Plan (Dunod, 1993)

He received honorary degrees from eight universities as well as several awards and decorations from the French government and other countries world-wide.

Pascal Lamy was appointed in 2019 as chair of the Paris Peace Forum, a new innovative global governance initiative launched in 2018. He is President of the French Committee of the Pacific Economic Cooperation Council (PECC), President Emeritus of the Jacques Delors Institute, President of the World Committee of Tourism Ethics, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Musiciens du Louvre (Orchestra Marc Minkowski), member of the Board of Directors of the Fondation nationale des Sciences politiques, of the Mo Ibrahim Foundation, of the European Climate Foundation, of the International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development (ICTSD), of the Thomson Reuters Founders Share Company, of Transparency International France, of the Center on European Regulation (CERRE) and of the Pierre Mendès-France Institute, senior advisor to the Brunswick Group, to Trade Mark East Africa (TMEA) and to the World Trade Board, member of the Advisory Board of Transparency International, the Oxford Martin School and CEPR Distinguished Fellow. He is a trustee at Europeum and affiliate Professor at HEC Paris, and at the China Europe International Business School (CEIBS Shanghai). He also currently serves on the Global Agenda Council on regional governance at the World Economic Forum, and is member of the Global Foundation Rome Roundtable, member of the Orientation Committee of the Colbert Foundation (2019) and member of the Alpbach forum advisory Board and member of the Beijing Forum Advisory Council.

Pascal Lamy also lectures, including to the benefit of Institut Jacques Delors, among other engagments on issues related to globalisation, global governance, international trade, international economics, regional integration, European and French issues.