Professor Daniel Cohen is Professor of Economics, and former head of the Economics department, École normale supérieure. He is President and founding member of the Paris School of Economics. He was the Co-director of the CEPR International Macroeconomics programme of the CEPR from the 1992 until 1999 He has published several books, including Private Lending to Sovereign States, Our Modern Times and The Wealth of the World and the Poverty of Nations, which has translated into 15 languages. He was educated at the Ecole Normale Supérieure (1973-1976) receiving a Agrégation de Mathematiques in 1976, a Doctorat d'Etat ès Sciences Economiques in 1986 from Paris X, and Agregation des Facultés de Droit et de Sciences Economiques in 1988.