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The Annual Emile Noel Lecture

The Annual Emile Noel Lecture
Fall 2006

The Hauser Global Law School Program and the Jean Monnet Center for International and Regional Economic Law & Justice at New York University School of Law presented The Annual Emile Noel Lecture on October 30, 2006. The lecture, entitled "Making Trade Work for Development: Time for a Geneva Consensus?" was delivered by Pascal Lamy, World Trade Organization Director General.

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Biographical Information

Lamy

Mr. Pascal Lamy
World Trade Organization Director General

Mr. Lamy holds degrees from the Paris-based Ecole des Hautes Etudes 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 privatization 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).

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