Pierre Jacquet – Executive Director, Strategy, Agence Française de Développement
Since January 2002, Pierre Jacquet has been executive director, in charge of strategy, and
chief economist at the French Development Agency (AFD) in Paris. He was formerly deputy
director of the French Institute of International Relations (IFRI) in Paris and chief editor of
IFRI’s quarterly review Politique Etrangère. He teaches international economics and chairs
the department of economics and social sciences at Ecole nationale des ponts et chaussées.
He is also a member of the Conseil d’Analyse Economique, an independent advisory panel
created by the French Prime Minister in July, 1997. He belongs to the French Société
d’Economie Politique and to the Cercle des Economistes, a club of 25 economists who
contribute a daily editorial on a French radio channel, Radio Classique. He is also a guest
professor in corporate programs at the French business school INSEAD and at CEDEP, the
European center for executive education.