Lessons Learned: Benoît Cœuré

Authors

Mercedes CardonaFollow

Document Type

Lessons Learned

Abstract

Benoît Cœuré held several positions in the French Treasury in the years leading to the Global Financial Crisis (GFC). He was an economic adviser to the director general of the French Treasury from 1997–2002, deputy chief executive and chief executive of the French debt management office from 2002–2007, and assistant secretary for multilateral affairs, trade, and development from 2007–2009. He served as chief economist and deputy director general in 2009–2011. He joined the European Central Bank (ECB) during the European Sovereign debt Crisis and was responsible for market operations, market infrastructure supervision and European and international relations as a member of the ECB Executive Board and the Governing Council from 2012 through 2019. He was elected chairman of the BIS Committee on Payments and Market Infrastructures (CPMI) in 2013 and was named to head the BIS Innovation Hub in 2020, a position he held until 2022. Since 2022, he has been president of the Autorité de la concurrence, France’s competition oversight authority.

Recommended Citation

Cardona, Mercedes (2025) "Lessons Learned: Benoît Cœuré," Journal of Financial Crises: Vol. 7 : Iss. 2, 366-368.
Available at: https://elischolar.library.yale.edu/journal-of-financial-crises/vol7/iss2/16