He is a senior fellow at Bruegel in Brussels, which he co-founded in 2002–05, and at the Peterson Institute for International Economics in Washington DC, which he joined in 2009.
He was a French civil servant from 1995 to 2000, first in the Prefecture in Lille then as the corporate advisor to Labor Minister Martine Aubry in the Jospin government.
In 2000–02 he worked for publicly listed French Internet company MultiMania, later renamed Lycos France, as VP Business Development then Chief Financial Officer.
[5] Véron became an independent board member of the derivatives arm (Global Trade Repository) of DTCC in July 2013.
From 2014 to 2016 he was also a member of the scientific advisory board of AMF, France's securities regulator.