Nicolas Véron

Nicolas Véron is a senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics and host of the Peterson Institute's Financial Statements virtual event series. He is also a senior fellow at Bruegel, a Brussels-based economic policy think tank he helped cofound in 2002-04. A French citizen and graduate of École Polytechnique and École Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Paris, he has held various positions in the public and private sectors, including as corporate adviser to France's labour minister (1997-2000), as chief financial officer of the publicly listed internet company MultiMania / Lycos France (2000-2002), and as an independent financial services consultant. Since July 2013, he has been a board member of the derivatives arm of DTCC (the Depository Trust and Clearing Corporation), a global financial infrastructure company.Véron's research is mostly focused on financial systems and financial reform around the world, including global financial regulatory initiatives and current developments in the European Union (EU). He has published on accounting standards, audit firm governance, banking supervision, cross-border financial crisis management, economic nationalism, financing of high-growth firms, industrial policy, internationalisation of large companies, oversight of inward investment in the EU, and rating agencies.