François Bourguignon


François Bourguignon is a 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. He focuses on the study of income and wealth inequality, economy-wide country studies, international trade, trade and tax policy, redistribution and education.

Education

Bourguignon is trained as a statistician at ENSAE Paris and has a PhD from the University of Western Ontario.

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