Jean-Hervé Lorenzi is President and Chairman of the French think-tank Le Cercle des économistes which annually organizes the economic forum Les Rencontres Economiques d'Aix-en-Provence.

Starting his career in 1975 as a professor of economics at Paris 13 University and at the École normale supérieure, Jean-Hervé Lorenzi became advisor of the President of Havas Group from 1979 to 1981.

In 1991, he was appointed Economic Advisor to the French Prime minister Édith Cresson.

From 1992 to 1994, he was Chief Executive Officer at the Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives.

Jean-Hervé Lorenzi has been a professor at the Paris Dauphine University from 1992 to 2012 (Master 218 Assurance et gestion du risque) and has been a member of the Conseil d'Analyse Économique from 1997 to 2012.