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Pascal Lamy
Director-General, World Trade Organization (WTO), Geneva
Pascal Lamy has served as Director-General of the World Trade Organization since September 2005.
Previously, he was the Trade Commissioner of the European Union in Brussels from 1999 to 2004.
From 1994 until 1999, he served as Director-General of the team responsible for restructuring the Credit Lyonnaise.
The beginnings of Mr. Lamy’s career are marked by time spent in civil service at the French Finance Ministry, the Inspection Générale des Finances, and the Treasury Department.
He later became adviser to Economics and Finance Minister, Jacques Delors, and to Prime Minister Pierre Mauroy. From 1984 to 1994, Mr. Lamy worked in Brussels as chief of staff to Commission President, Jacques Delors.
A member of the French Socialist Party, Mr. Lamy is also politically active in the Mouvement Europeen. In 1999, he was the recipient of the Officier de la Legion d’Honneur and has been honored with several international orders of merit.
Mr. Lamy’s academic credits include degrees from L’Ecole des Hautes Etudes Commerciales (HEC), the Paris Institute of Political Studies, and L’Ecole Nationale d’Administration (ENA).
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