Nicolas Véron
Nicolas Véron () is a French economist. He is a senior fellow at Bruegel in Brussels, which he co-founded in 2002–05, and at the Peterson Institute for International Economics in Washington DC, which he joined in 2009. In 2012, he was included in the global 50 Most Influential list of Bloomberg Markets Magazine. Research and career. Véron is an alumnus of École Polytechnique and of École nationale supérieure des mines de Paris where he received the Corps des mines training. He was a French civil servant from 1995 to 2000, first in the Prefecture in Lille then as  the corporate advisor to Labor Minister Martine Aubry in the Jospin government. In 2000–02 he worked for publicly listed French Internet company MultiMania, later renamed Lycos France, as VP Business Development then Chief Financial Officer. He then cofounded Bruegel together with Jean Pisani-Ferry, starting in 2002. His research focuses on banking and financial regulation, including in recent years, the European Banking union. He has testified before the US Senate, the European Parliament, the UK House of Lords, the Portuguese National Assembly, the Italian Parliament and the German Bundestag. Véron became an independent board member of the derivatives arm (Global  Trade Repository) of DTCC in July 2013. From 2014 to 2016 he was also a member of the scientific advisory board of AMF, France's securities regulator.