Mr Lamy has formerly held the positions of European Commissioner for Trade, CEO of Credit Lyonnais Bank, and Chief of staff for the President of the European Commission. He took office as Director-General of the World Trade Organization in September 2005.

 

Detailed Biography:

Mr. Lamy holds degrees from the Paris based Ecole des Hautes Études 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 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).

 

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)

 

Speeches

Pascal Lamy’s speeches are available here

 

Pascal Lamy’s word :

Blogging is nothing new for me. I quite enjoy it, not that I’ve much time to engage in this but I find it a very useful means of communication. Also, many people have told me, for example, that my blog at the Ministerial Conference in Hong Kong has helped to make the meeting more transparent.