Prof Jérôme Creel is a Professor of Economics at ESCP Europe; he joined the school in September 2007. He has been full deputy director at the Observatoire Français des Conjonctures Economiques (Sciences Po) in Paris since 2003, part-time deputy since 2007; he was a Junior then Senior economist in the same institution (1998-2003). He was a Lecturer at University of Paris-Dauphine between 1993 and 2011 and has been teaching at Sciences Po since 1999. He holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Paris-Dauphine (obtained cum laude in 1997). His research has focused on economic policies in the EMU, including monetary and fiscal coordination, on the economics of EU enlargement (co-editor, with S. Levasseur, of a Special Issue of Revue de l’OFCE, 2004) and on institutional economics, notably related to the Constitutional Treaty and delegation issues. Professor Creel is co-author with E. Farvaque of a book dedicated to the economic history of the EU and the Euro area (Construction européenne et politique économique, Vuibert, 2004) and co-editor of a book with M. Sawyer dedicated to fiscal policy (Current Thnking on Fiscal Policy, Palgrave MacMillan, 2009). He has published approximately thirty articles in leading economic journals in the field of macroeconomics and international economics. He works frequently with the media, providing interviews and comments in France, Italy, Japan, Germany, etc.. His monograph, jointly with J.-P. Fitoussi, in 2002 on the European Central Bank (‘How to Reform the ECB’, Centre for European Reform, Pamphlet, October) was the subject of the Economic Focus of The Economist in October 2002.