Position
on the date of
his appointment to the Strategic Advisory Board on Information Technologies,
27 September 2004
Since
1986, Michel Didier has held the economics chair (macroeconomics and economic
policy) at Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers. Since 1990 he has
headed Centre de Recherches pour l'Expansion de l'Economie et le Développement
des Entreprises (Rexecode - research centre for economic expansion and corporate
development, an independent economic forecasting institute). He also chairs the
steering committee of the investment firm La Française des Placements.
He has previously held several management positions at the Ministry of the Economy
and Finance (particularly at the budget and forecasting directorates). He is a
graduate of Ecole Polytechnique and Ecole Nationale de la Statistique et de l'Administration
Economique (ENSAE).
He has published several works on economics,
i.e. Les projections économiques d'ensemble - Que sais-je? PUF (1979);
Economie: les règles du jeu - Editions Economica (1984); Scénarios
pour l'emploi (with R. Solow, J. Lesourne, J.P. Fitoussi, et al) éditions
Economica (1995); Innovation et croissance, with Robert Boyer (Council of Economic
Analysis report for the Prime Minister), Enjeux économiques de l'UMTS,
with Jean-Hervé Lorenzi (Council of Economic Analysis report), Des idées
pour la croissance (77 economists suggest their priorities for sustainable growth
in France), éditions Economica (2003), La croissance par la réforme
(collective work), éditions Economica (2004) and many articles.
He
is a member of the Economists Club, the Scientific Board of Stock Market Indices
(ParisBourse-Euronext), the Council of Economic Analysis to the Prime Minister,
the National Economic Council and the Economic and Social Council.
