Lionel Fontagné

Lionel Fontagné is Professor of economics at the Paris School of Economics, Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne.

He is also a member of the Conseil d'analyse économique (Council of Economic Analysis to the French Prime Minister), a scientific advisor to the Centre d’études prospectives et d’informations internationales (CEPII, Paris), and an advisor to the International Trade Center (UNCTAD-WTO, Geneva).

He has formerly been the Director of the CEPII, a Supply Professor at the Free University of Brussels and a Professor at the University of Nantes, as well as a consultant to the OECD Development Centre, to the OECD Directorate for Science Technology and Industry, to the Luxembourg Ministry of Finance, and to the French Ministry of Finance. He is editor of the on-line Think tank Telos.

He has written numerous studies on international trade and integration issues. In 1999, Open Economies Review recognized Prof. Fontagné for his joint contribution to the debate on the endogenous symmetry of shocks in monetary unions. In 2007, he was awarded the Research Fellowship of GTAP (Global Trade Analysis Project, Purdue University).

He is currently working on trade policy issues, offshoring, outsourcing and the economics of deindustrialisation. He has previously worked on competitiveness, on sanitary and technical barriers to trade, on the relationships between trade and FDI, on tax competition, on intra-industry trade, and on the evaluation of the Single market program.