Pierre Achille Louis Eugène Quesnay (12 October 1895 – 8 September 1937) was a French economist and central bank official.
He was enlisted in the French army during World War I, after which Rist mentored him to join the Vienna office of the Reparation Commission that had been set up by Treaty of Versailles.
Quesnay served there from 1920 to 1925,[1] working with High Commissioner of the League of Nations Alfred Rudolph Zimmerman [nl],[2] and interacting with international financial policymakers of the time that included Jean Monnet and Montagu Norman.
[3] In 1929, Quesnay participated in the French delegation at the Hague conference on reparations where the Young Plan was negotiated, resulting in the creation of the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) in early 1930.
In early September 1937, he visited Émile Moreau at the latter's country home in Saint-Léomer, and died there accidentally by drowning in a pond.