Mr. Pascal Lamy is Director-General of the World Trade Organization (WTO) since September 2005.

 

Mr. Lamy holds degrees from the Paris based Ecole des Hautes Etudes Commerciales (HEC), from the Institut d’Etudes Politiques (IEP) and from the Ecole Nationale d’Administration (ENA). He began his career in the French civil service at the Inspection Générale des finances and at the Treasury.  He then became an advisor to the Finance Minister Jacques Delors, and subsequently to Prime Minister Pierre Mauroy. 

 

In Brussels from 1985 to 1994, Pascal Lamy was Chief of staff for the President of the European Commission, Jacques Delors, and his representative as Sherpa in the G7.  

 

In November 1994, he joined the team in charge of rescuing the French bank, Credit Lyonnais, and later became CEO of the bank until its privatisation in 1999.

 

Between 1999 and 2004, Pascal Lamy was Commissioner for Trade at the European Commission under Romano Prodi.

 

After his tenure in Brussels, Pascal Lamy spent a short sabbatical period as President of "Notre Europe", a think tank working on European integration, as associate Professor at the l’Institut d’études politiques in Paris and as advisor to Poul Nyrup Rasmussen (President of the European Socialist Party).

 

 Mr. Lamy was reappointed Director-General of the World Trade Organization by its Members for a second mandate in May 2009.

Publications

Towards World Democracy (Policy Network) (La démocratie monde: pour une autre gouvernance globale (Seuil, 2004)) L'Europe en première ligne avec Erik Orsenna (Seuil, 2002) (in French) The Europe we Want with Jean Pisani-Ferry (Policy Network) (L'Europe de nos volontés (Plon, 2002)) Monde-Europe (Dunod, 1993) (in French)

 

Distinctions

Knight Commander's Cross ( Badge and star of the order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (1991) Commander, order of merit of Luxembourg ( 1995) Officier de la Légion d'Honneur (1999) Officer, Oder of merit of Gabon ( 2000) Médaille de la Fraternité du Vietnam ( 2007)