ABSTRACT
For the third member of the panel, I welcome Professor Edmond Malinvaud who has a very, very distinguished career both domestically in France and of course internationally. When I came to look up the biographical details of Professor Malinvaud there were many, many lines of experience that I might mention. Perhaps the most important and relevant for our purposes is his association with INSEE (Institute National des Statistiques et des Etudes Economiques), where he has worked for many years and was director-general between 1974 and 1987. The INSEE is a rather unusual institution as it incorporates both some of the responsibility taken by the Central Bureau of Statistics in other countries and some of the more general responsibilities of a policy analysis bureau like NIESR in Great Britain, but it is also the ‘grand école’ institute responsible for advanced training in economics and statistics. Professor Malinvaud is recognized internationally for his work in econometrics and has twice held a visiting professorship in the United States. Last but not least, as far as we are concerned, he is chairman of the Scientific Council of the Tinbergen Institute.
