Jacques Le Cacheux

Jacques Le Cacheux is an emeritus professor of economics at Université de Pau et des Pays de l'Adour (UPPA). He has been a professor at École nationale des Ponts et Chaussées (Ponts-ParisTech) and has also taught at Sciences Po (Paris), Stanford University in Paris, and the European Online Academy.

His research focuses primarily on European economics, macroeconomics, taxation, and environmental sustainability. A former student of the École normale supérieure (ENS-Ulm) and a graduate of Sciences Po Paris, he holds a master’s degree in economics from the University of Paris I and a European doctorate in economics from the European University Institute (Florence, Italy). He was Director of the Research Department at OFCE from 1993 to 2014 and served as one of the rapporteurs for the Stiglitz-Sen-Fitoussi Commission in 2008-2009. He chairs the Scientific Council of the INSEE journal Economie et statistiques and the Scientific Advisory Board of EN3S (École nationale supérieure de la Sécurité sociale).

In addition to numerous articles in French and Anglo-Saxon academic journals, he is also the author or co-author of several books in both French and English, including Les Français et l’impôt (Odile Jacob/La Documentation française, 2008) and, with Jean-Paul Fitoussi, the Report on the State of the European Union series (Palgrave-Macmillan). With Eloi Laurent, he has co-authored Économie de l’environnement et économie écologique (Cursus Collection, Armand Colin, 2012, 2nd edition in 2015), Un nouveau monde économique, and Mesurer le bien-être et la soutenabilité au XXIe siècle (Odile Jacob, 2015).

He is a Knight of the Legion of Honour.