Nicolas Véron

Nicolas Véron works on financial regulation in the EU and globally, and on other policy issues at the nexus between business, finance and politics. His scope of research includes banking supervision, accounting standards, credit rating agencies, global financial regulatory institutions, corporate finance and governance, industrial policies, economic nationalism, sovereign wealth funds, and the internationalization of large corporations.
He has been involved in the creation and development of Bruegel since late 2002 and has worked there full-time since 2005. In late 2009 he also joined the Peterson Institute for International Economics as a Visiting Fellow, and currently divides his time each month equally between the US and Europe.
His experience includes working for Saint-Gobain in Berlin and Rothschilds in Paris in the early 1990s; economic aide to the Prefect in Lille (1995-97); corporate adviser to France’s Labour Minister (1997-2000); and chief financial officer of publicly-listed MultiMania / Lycos France (2000-2002). In 2002 he also founded a small financial consultancy in Paris.
Véron is the author of Smoke & Mirrors, Inc.: Accounting for Capitalism, a book on accounting standards and practices (Cornell University Press, 2006); of numerous policy papers at Bruegel, alone or with co-authors including Thomas Philippon, Jean Pisani-Ferry, Adam Posen, Lars-Hendrik Röller, and André Sapir; and of several books in French.
He writes a monthly column on business and finance that has been published and translated since March 2005 by La Tribune in France, and more recently by Forbes Russia, Caixin (China), Referans (Turkey), and La Voce (Italy).
Véron is a member of the Corporate Disclosure Policy Council of the CFA Institute and of the Accounting and Auditing Practices Committee of the International Corporate Governance Network. A French citizen born in 1971, he has a quantitative background as a graduate from Ecole Polytechnique (1992) and Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Paris (1995). He speaks fluent English, French, German and Spanish.