Sylviane Guillaumont Jeanneney is Emeritus Professor at the Université d’Auvergne, researcher at Cerdi, consultant at Ferdi, and Fellow of the Oxford Center for Studies on African Economies (CSAE). She is a member of the Board of the Agence Française de Développement. She was President of the French Association of Economic Science and a member of the French Council of Economic Analysis. She has published many books and articles in international reviews: her main research interests are development economics, international cooperation, exchange rate, monetary and fiscal policy and environmental issues.