The Direction générale du Trésor (DG Trésor, English: Directorate General of the Treasury, or French Treasury) is the flagship Directorate General of the French Ministry of the Economy and Finance.
It holds an advisory role within the French Government on matters ranging from domestic to international economic policy.
The DG Trésor also represents and defends French economic interests abroad by overseeing the economic departments of embassies (French : service économique), and by providing permanent representations at international organizations (IMF, World Bank Group, OECD, WTO, G20, G7, specific comities of the European Commission, etc.).
[12][13][14][15] Additionally, the French Treasury provides the chief economist of the ministry, Agnès Bénassy-Quéré since June 2020.
[16][17][18][19] The Directorate General is composed of five departments and one secretariat general:[20] The Agence France Trésor is an autonomous department of the DG Trésor, created in 2001, tasked with managing French government debt and state participations.