Benoît Coeuré

Benoît Cœuré has been the President of the French Competition Authority (Autorité de la concurrence) since January 2022. Since January 2025, he has been the chairman of the OECD Competition Committee. He is also the President of CEPREMAP. Prior to joining the French Competition Authority, Mr Cœuré served in various policy positions at the French Treasury, the European Central Bank and the Bank for International Settlements. At the french Treasury, he was the Chief Executive of the French debt management office, Agence France Trésor, then Assistant Secretary for Multilateral Affairs, Trade and Development, and Deputy Director General and Chief Economist of the Treasury. At the ECB in 2012- 2019, he was a member of the Executive Board in charge of market operations, international and European relations and payments oversight. He was the first head of the Bank for International Settlements’ Innovation Hub in 2020-2021. Mr Cœuré is a graduate of the École polytechnique in Paris and holds an advanced degree in statistics and economic policy from the École nationale de la statistique et de l’administration économique (ENSAE) and a B.A. in Japanese. He has been an affiliate professor at Ecole polytechnique and at Sciences Pos. He has authored articles and books on economic policy, the international monetary system and the economics of European integration; including Economic Policy: Theory and Practice, Oxford University Press, 2018 (with Agnès Bénassy-Quéré, Pierre Jacquet and Jean Pisani-Ferry).