Invitation 22 Fevrier - Université Paris 1 Panthéon

U.S. Mission to the OECD
Chaire des Amériques
Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne
The French-American Foundation – France
The Chaire des Amériques de l’Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne
The U.S. Mission to the OECD
in association with
The Institut d'Administration des Entreprises de Paris (IAE)
invite you to attend a Conference, in English, on
“World Economic Challenges in the Era of Globalization”
Special Address by
Christopher F. Egan
Ambassador to the U.S. Mission of the OECD
Commentaries and Discussion with
Christian de Boissieu
Chairman, French Council of Economic Analysis (CAE),
Office of the Prime Minister, Professor at the Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne
Mark L. Cohen
Counsel, White & Case
Jean-Dominique Lafay
Professor at the Economic Department of the Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne
Moderated by
Mathilde Maurel
Center for Economics of the Sorbonne, Professor at the Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne
Friday February 22, 2008
15h00 to 17h00 (Seating begins at 14h30)
Amphithéâtre Richelieu of the Sorbonne
17, Rue de la Sorbonne, Paris Vème
Please confirm your attendance by Thursday, February 21 to:
Janet Steinmetzer, Director of Development, French-American Foundation – France
Tel.: 01 45 77 31 74 Fax: 01 45 77 40 71 Email: [email protected]
Or to:
Clémence Deguingand, Secretariat of the Chaire des Amériques: [email protected]
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Biographies:
Ambassador Christopher F. Egan
Ambassador Christopher F. Egan was appointed by President George W. Bush to serve as United States
Permanent Representative to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) in Paris,
France and confirmed by the Senate on (October 26, 2007).
From 1993 to 2007, Ambassador Egan was President and Founding Managing Member of Carruth Capital, LLC in
Westborough, Massachusetts, one of New England’s top 10 largest commercial real estate companies. In 1986, he
became the Senior Marketing Manager of EMC Corporation in Hopkinton, Massachusetts in 1986, creating and
launching EMC’s Executive Briefing Center, which also served as a resource for attracting large corporate clients
and business prospects to EMC
In addition to his corporate achievements, Ambassador Egan has served as a board member of numerous
organizations that promote public health care and business in Massachusetts, including chairing an Emerging
Technology Fund which invests some $20 million in the biotech industry through direct loans. He is also the cofounder of “Break the Cycle of Poverty,” a non-profit organization that aims to lift people out of poverty through
education.
Ambassador Egan has been an active member and public figure in his local community of Westborough,
Massachusetts. He was a television commentator for PBS, WNDS and NECN, as well as an op-ed contributor and
a documentarian. In 2004, Ambassador Egan produced a documentary entitled, “Eclipsed by the Sun,” a critically
acclaimed look at Massachusetts political history.
Ambassador Egan graduated in 1986 from the University of Massachusetts with a Science Degree in Engineering
and in 2005, received a Masters Degree in Public Administration from Harvard University’s Kennedy School of
Government.
One of five children of businessman and former Ambassador Richard J. and Mrs. Egan, Ambassador Egan is
married to the former Jean Chisholm and is the father of three small children aged five, three and one years old.
Christian de Boissieu
Agrégé des Facultés de droit et de sciences économiques.
Professeur à l'Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne.
Président délégué du Conseil d'analyse économique auprès du Premier ministre.
Directeur du Master 2 "Banque et Finance" à l'Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne.
Directeur du Centre d'observation économique de la Chambre de commerce et d'industrie de Paris.
Directeur du Conseil d'orientation pour l'emploi.
Conseiller scientifique auprès de l'Autorité des marchés financiers, de la Banque de France et de l'Institut européen
des Fusions-Acquisitions.
Membre du Comité des établissements de crédit et des entreprises d'investissements.
Président de la Commission de contrôle de la gestion de portefeuilles et de la Commission de surveillance des
OPCVM de la Principauté de Monaco.
Associate Research Fellow du CEPS (Bruxelles).
President d'honneur de la Société d'économie politique et de l'Association française de finance.
Membre du Conseil d'administration du Crédit agricole, de Ernst & Young France, de la Banque Neuflize et de la
société Oséo.
Mark L. Cohen
Mr. Cohen’s experience is primarily in mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, project finance, technology
licensing, international commerce, and corporate dispute resolution.
Mr. Cohen advises on the negotiation of M&A and joint venture agreements around the world, often involving
entities of different nationalities and assists clients with due diligence, regulatory approvals, and management and
governance rules and procedures. In addition he advises clients on the applicability of international commercial
rules, including in particular the World Trade Organization Agreements relating to free trade and defenses against
protectionist behavior in certain public markets.
In the project finance area, Mr. Cohen represents sponsors, lenders and multilaterals on large infrastructure
projects, primarily in the metals and energy fields. He has worked on projects in Latin America, Eastern Europe
and Asia. In addition to financing, Mr. Cohen assists clients with licensing, technical assistance and management
agreements for major projects.
Mr. Cohen counsels clients when disputes arise in the course of financing and constructing projects. He is adept at
resolving disputes involving multiple parties, such as lenders, contractors, sponsors and local investment and
management interests. These cases often involve technical issues, such as the causal relationship between mistakes
and performance failures over a period of time. He is a member of the London Court of International Arbitration
and is a mediator certified by the Center for Mediation and Arbitration of the Paris Chamber of Commerce and
Industry.
Mr. Cohen’s practice also includes counseling clients on privatization transactions and trade and commodity
finance. The latter involves advice on how to reduce risk in the pre-export financing of commodities throughout
the world.
At the present time Mr. Cohen teaches a course entitled “The History of the United States Viewed through Its Legal
System” at the business school in Lille l’HEDEC.
Before joining White & Case in 2001, Mr. Cohen was an international lawyer and senior legal consultant for the
French aluminum producer Pechiney for 25 years. He was responsible for negotiating and drafting licensing,
know-how, technical assistance, turnkey construction, joint venture, agency, and purchase and sale agreements and
also worked on antitrust matters, mergers and acquisitions, ICC arbitrations and business development strategy.
In the early years of his career, Mr. Cohen served as law clerk to the chief Justice of the Superior Court of
Massachusetts, Assistant Attorney General of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts; Project Director of the Ford
Foundation Drug Abuse Council; Project Director for the public interest television series “The Advocates”, and
Director of a UNESCO project examining the feasibility of rehabilitation centers in Europe.
Jean-Dominique Lafay
Professor, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (Economic Department). e-mail : [email protected]
Main research topics:
Public Economics, Political Economy, Public Choice.
Main administrative experiences :
Director of the Laboratoire d’économie publique (LAEP)
General Director, CNOUS (National Center for Student Affairs)
Vice-Chancellor of the Universities of Paris
Scientific Director for Law, Economics Political Science and Management (Ministry of Scientific Research)
Dean of the Faculty of Economics and Management, University of Poitiers.
Scientific books and monographs:
2007 – Principes d’économie moderne, with J. E. Stiglitz and C. E. Walsh, 3ed., Bruxelles: De Boeck.
1998 - Public Sector Economics, with E.Jiltsov (in Russian), Moscow: Lomonosov University Press.
1995 - The Political Feasibility of Adjustment in Developing Countries, with S.Haggard and C.Morrisson, Paris:
OECD.
1993 – The Political Dimension of Economic Adjustment, with J.Lecaillon, Paris : OCDE.
1992 - L'économie mixte, avec J.Lecaillon, Paris: PUF (French, Vietnamese and Chinese editions).
1991 - Economics and Politics in Western Democracies: The Calculus of Support, co edited with H.Norpoth and
Lewis-Beck, Ann Arbor : The University of Michigan Press.
Selected scientific papers and chapters in books:
« Modèles politico-économétriques et prévisions électorales pour mai 2007 » (2007), avec F. Facchini et A.
Auberger, Revue française d’économie, 23 (4) : 5-23.
« G. Stigler, The Citizen and the State: Essays in regulation » in Greffe X., Lallement J. et de Vroey M. dir. (2002),
Dictionnaire des grandes œuvres économiques, Paris : Dalloz.
- « The Impact of Political Scandals on Public Opinion » (2001), Homo Oeconomicus, 28 (4).
- “Information and Political Decision-Makers”, in Galeotti, Salmon, Wintrobe eds. (2000), Competition and
Structure: Essays in Honor of Albert Breton, Cambridge : Cambridge Univ. Press.
- “The Impact of Turnout on Electoral Choices : An Econometric Analysis of the French Case”(2000), with C.
Fauvelle-Aymar and M.Servais, Electoral Studies, 19 (2-3): 393-412.
- “L’analyse économique de la politique: raisons d’être, vrais problèmes et fausses critiques” (1998), Revue
française de sociologie 38 : 229-243.
- « A Politico-Economic Model for Stabilisation in Africa » (1998), with S.Dessus and C.Morrisson, in Journal of
African Economies, 7(1):91-119.
- « Empirical Analysis of Politico-Economic Interaction in East European Countries », reprint of a paper originally
published in Soviet Studies, in M.Blaug ed.(1996), The International Library of Critical Writings in Economics,
volume: Political Business Cycles), Cheltenham: Edward Elgar.
Mathilde de Maurel
Mathilde Maurel, born 1966, is a former graduate from Ecole Normale Supérieure and Ecole Nationale de la
Statistique et des Etudes Economiques. Her research focuses on comparative economics and transition economics.
Her 1998 book, Régionalisme et désintégration en Europe centrale et orientale: une approche gravitationnelle,
(Paris, Presses du CNRS), analyses the collapse of the Soviet area, by focusing on the trade aspects.
Mathilde Maurel is specialized in transition issues, her interests focus on the role of institutions, property rights, the
rule of law, regulatory framework for understanding the role of institutions in explaining the emergence of different
transition paths from planned economies towards Market. More recently she shifted her research from the Soviet
area to the Asiatic one. She was invited by the Center of European Studies University of Fudan and she spent one
month in Shanghai for teaching and conducting research on China.
Migration from Eastern to Western European countries is one aspect of the European regionalism, which remains
her main area of expertise. In a recent work with Jean Claude Berthelemy and Monica Beuran, she analyses the
skills composition of this migration and the complementarity versus substitutability of aid and migration. In June
2008, Mathilde Maurel organises a big conference in Bucarest entitled "Migration, Education: what prospect for
growth in migrants sending countries'", which will focus on the European experiences.