Bernard Snoy

Bernard Snoy has been since 2014 Chairman of Robert Triffin International (RTI), a think tank, based in Louvain-la-Neuve and in Turin, that aims at the preservation and the promotion of the intellectual heritage of the late Belgian-American economist Robert Triffin (1911-1993), particularly as concerns the necessity to reform the international monetary system.

Bernard Snoy holds a Ph.D. in economics from Harvard (1974) and a law degree from the Catholic University of Louvain (1967). He was an economist at the World Bank between 1974 and 1986. In 1986, he moved to a position of Economic Counsellor at the DG for Economic and Financial Affairs of the European Commission. From 1988 to 1991, he was Chief of Cabinet of the Belgian Minister of Finance and was involved, among others, in the negotiations leading to the Maastricht Treaty. From 1991 to 1994, he returned to the World Bank as Executive Director representing ten countries belonging to the Belgian-led constituency. This was followed by assignments as Member of the Board of Directors of the EBRD (1994-2002), Director of the Economic Table of the Stability Pact for South Eastern Europe (2002-2005) and Coordinator of the Economic and Environmental Activities of the OSCE (2005-2008). From 2008 to 2017, Bernard Snoy has been teaching at the Institute for European Studies of the UCLouvain. Publications under these successive positions cover mainly issues of development, transition, international indebtedness, capital markets, European integration and reform of the international monetary system.