François Bourguignon (born May 22, 1945) is a former Chief Economist (2003–2007) of the World Bank.
He has been the Director of the Paris School of Economics,[1] and from 1985 to his retirement in 2013 a professor of economics at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris.
[2] in 2016 Bourguignon was awarded the Dan David Prize.
He focuses on the study of income and wealth inequality, economy-wide country studies (Brazil, China, India…), international trade and trade policy, education, wealth, income, redistribution, and tax policy.
Trained as a statistician at ENSAE Paris (French National School of Statistics and Economics), François Bourguignon has a PhD from the University of Western Ontario.