Philippe HERZOG

Philippe Herzog is the founding chairman of Confrontations Europe. He is a highly-respected player in the European public sphere.

A former student of the Ecole Polytechnique (class of 1959) and of the National School of Statistics and Economics, he began his career in 1964 as an administrator at the INSEE (the French National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies), where he was responsible for short-term forecasting in the national accounting department.
Having obtained a PhD and an advanced teaching diploma in economic science, he became a university professor and taught at Paris-X Nanterre from 1973 to 2003.
As a member of the Political Bureau of the French Communist Party (PCF), he ran his own economic section and the “Economie et Politique” review. He resigned from the PCF in 1996.
He has served on the National Planning Commission (1982-1988), the Economic and Social Council (1984-1989) and the Prime Minister’s Council of Economic Analysis (1997-2008).

As a Euro MP from 1989 to 1999 and 2000 to 2004, he was Chairman of the Committee on External Economic Relations, Vice-Chairman of the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs and Vice-Chairman of the Europe/United States delegation to the European Parliament; he was also appointed by the French Minister of European Affairs to promote the European social dialogue. Through a combination of research and action, he aims to involve citizens and the civil society in the management of the economy, and is exploring with them new possibilities for European construction.

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