He is president of the Global Development Network, a founding fellow of the European Union Development Network and senior fellow at the Fondation pour les études et recherches en développement international.
Jean-Louis Arcand holds a PhD in economics from MIT and a master's from the University of Cambridge.
[1] In 2012 Jean-Louis authored (with Enrico Berkes and Ugo Panizza) the IMF working paper Too Much Finance[2][3] which establishes that: [...] there comes a point when the financial sector has a negative effect on growth – that is, when credit to the private sector exceeds 110% of GDP.
It shows that, of the advanced countries currently suffering in the fallout of the global crisis were all above this threshold.Jean-Louis Arcand is Director of the Centre for Finance and Development and a member of the Centre on Conflict, Development and Peacebuilding, and Professor of International Economics at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva, which he joined in 2008.
He is a Founding Fellow of the European Union Development Network (EUDN) and Senior Fellow at the Fondation pour les études et recherches en développement international (FERDI).