François Bourguignon


François Bourguignon is the former Chief Economist of the World Bank. He has been the Director of the Paris School of Economics, and from 1985 to his retirement in 2013 a professor of economics at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris. in 2016 Bourguignon was awarded the Dan David Prize.

Education

Trained as a statistician at ENSAE Paris, François Bourguignon has a PhD from the University of Western Ontario.

Selected publications

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