Fellow of the Academy of technologies, Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Investisseurs & Partenaires (I&P), Inspector General of Finance, Vice-Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Foundation for International Research and Development (FERDI), Jean-Michel Severino has been Director of Development at the French Ministry of Cooperation, Vice-President for East Asia at the World Bank and Director General of the French Development Agency. He has been a lead director of Danone, Chairman of the Board of Directors of Ecobank International and a director of Orange, as well as the Carrefour, Sanofi, Alstom and Avril foundations. He chairs Veolia’s “critical friends committee” and the governance committee of Michelin’s supervisory board. He was also a Senior Fellow of the German Marshall Fund, an advisor to the European Commissioner for Development and a member of the French Foreign Affairs Council. He regularly publishes in the French and international press and is the author of several books on international economics, Africa and development.
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