Agnès Bénassy-Quéré

Member of the Board

Deputy Governor, Banque de France

Agnès Bénassy-Quéré is Deputy Governor of the Banque de France and member of the Bruegel board. Before this, she was the chief economist at the French Treasury. She was a Professor at the Paris School of Economics - University of Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne, and the Chair of the French Council of economic analysis. She worked for the French Ministry of economy and finance, before moving to academic positions successively at universities of Cergy-Pontoise, Lille 2, Paris-Ouest and Ecole Polytechnique. She also served as a Deputy-director and as a Director of CEPII and is affiliated with CESIfo and IZA. She is a Member of the Commission Economique de la Nation (an advisory body to the Finance minister), of the French macro-prudential authority and of the Banque de France’s Board. Her research interests focus on the international monetary system and European macroeconomic policy.

Featured work

External publication

Reconciling risk sharing with market discipline: A constructive approach to euro area reform

This publication proposes six reforms to improve the Eurozone’s financial stability, political cohesion, and potential for delivering prosperity.

Jean Pisani-Ferry, Nicolas Véron, Agnès Bénassy-Quéré, Hélène Rey, Philippe Martin, Marcel Fratzscher, Jeromin Zettelmeyer, Isabel Schnabel, Markus Brunnermeier, Clemens Fuest, Henrik Enderlein, Emmanuel Farhi and Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas
public debt fiscal policy financial regulation European monetary union euro area EU governance capital markets banking union
Opinion piece

A resilient Euro needs Franco-German compromise

In a piece signed by 15 leading French and German economists, Nicolas Véron lays out a path to a more sustainable Euro. Germany will need to accept so

Jean Pisani-Ferry, Nicolas Véron, Agnès Bénassy-Quéré, Hélène Rey, Philippe Martin, Marcel Fratzscher, Isabel Schnabel, Markus Brunnermeier, Lars Feld, Clemens Fuest, Henrik Enderlein, Emmanuel Farhi and Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas
single market European Central Bank euro area EU governance

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07 January 2026

Global imbalances and Europe: a fresh perspective

Bruegel’s 20th anniversary event in Paris, jointly organised with the Banque de France and the CEPR

Ravi Balakrishnan, Agnès Bénassy-Quéré, Zsolt Darvas, Charlotte Emlinger, Jason Furman, Olivier Garnier, Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas, Sébastien Jean, Kevin Lefebvre, Michala Marcussen, Isabelle Mejean, Alexandre Mendonça, Gian Maria Milesi-Ferretti, Gilles Moëc, Maurice Obstfeld, Camille Reverdy, Hélène Rey, André Sapir, Isabel Vansteenkiste, Vincent Vicard, François Villeroy de Galhau, Beatrice Weder di Mauro, Beth Anne Wilson and Jeromin Zettelmeyer

Conference

06 September 2022

Bruegel Annual Meetings, 6-7 September 2022

The Annual Meetings are Bruegel's flagship event which gathers high-level speakers to discuss the economic topics that affect Europe and the world.

Piotr Arak, Vincent Aussilloux, Muhamad Chatib Basri, Agnès Bénassy-Quéré, Brando Benifei, Damian Boeselager, Laurence Boone, Nadia Calviño, William Carter, Rebecca Christie, Grégory Claeys, Uri Dadush, Zsolt Darvas, Guy Debelle, Jo De Boeck, Sławomir Dębski, Jos Delbeke, Margarita Delgado, Maria Demertzis, Karolina Ekholm, Jens Eisenschmidt, Marion Finke, Alicia García-Herrero, Paolo Gentiloni, Kristalina Georgieva, Nicola Giammarioli, Anabel González, Arancha González Laya, Ricardo Hausmann, Douglas Irwin, Joana Jacinto, Patrick Jenkins, Alexandra Jour-Schroeder, Ditte Juul Jørgensen, Sigrid Kaag, Katya Klinova, Annamaria Lusardi, Joanna Maćkowiak-Pandera, Eva Maydell, Mairead McGuinness, Jan Mischke, Carlo Monticelli, Frederic Neumann, Françoise Nicolas, Laura Nurski, Ebru Özdemir, Tuomas Saarenheimo, André Sapir, Andrea Sironi, Marek Skawiński, Francesco Starace, Philipp Steinberg, Matina Stevis-Gridneff, Alexander Stubb, Arvind Subramanian, Simone Tagliapietra, Amaryllis Verhoeven, Nicolas Véron, Reinhilde Veugelers, Nicola Villa, Claire Waysand, Beatrice Weder di Mauro, Sabine Weyand, Guntram B. Wolff, Catherine Woollard, Georg Zachmann and Jeromin Zettelmeyer

Conference

07 September 2017

Bruegel Annual Meetings 2017, 7-8 September

The Annual Meetings are Bruegel’s flagship event.

Carlos Sallé Alonso, José Antonio Álvarez, Agnès Bénassy-Quéré, Pervenche Berès, Matthias Buck, Grégory Claeys, Zsolt Darvas, Jean Luc Demarty, Maria Demertzis, Anna Ekström, Lowri Evans, Ferdinando Giugliano, Sandro Gozi, Peter Grünenfelder, Reiner Hoffmann, Levin Holle, Kate Kalutkiewicz, Steffen Kampeter, Peter Kažimír, Emmanuel Lagarrigue, Matti Maasikas, Steven Maijoor, Reza Moghadam, Nathalie Moll, James Murray, Johan Van Overtveldt, Julia Reinaud, André Sapir, Dirk Schoenmaker, Mateusz Szczurek, Marianne Thyssen, Jean-Claude Trichet, Reinhilde Veugelers, Nicolas Véron, Ida Wolden Bache, Liviu Voinea, Guntram B. Wolff and Georg Zachmann

External publication

17 January 2018

Reconciling risk sharing with market discipline: A constructive approach to euro area reform

This publication proposes six reforms to improve the Eurozone’s financial stability, political cohesion, and potential for delivering prosperity.

Jean Pisani-Ferry, Nicolas Véron, Agnès Bénassy-Quéré, Hélène Rey, Philippe Martin, Marcel Fratzscher, Jeromin Zettelmeyer, Isabel Schnabel, Markus Brunnermeier, Clemens Fuest, Henrik Enderlein, Emmanuel Farhi and Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas