Jean-Paul Fitoussi Jean-Paul Fitoussi is Professor of Economics at the Institut d'Etudes Politiques in Paris, where he has taught since 1982 and whose Scientific Committee he now chairs. He is also Professor of Economics at the Luiss Guido Carli University in Rome. Mr. Fitoussi is currently President of the Observatoire Francais des Conjonctures Economiques (OFCE), an economic research and forecasting institute. His writing appears regularly in newspapers in France and abroad and he is commentator for La Repubblica and Le Monde. Since 2002 he has been Director of the Fondation Nationale des Sciences Politiques. In the field of research, Mr. Fitoussi has concentrated on inflation theory, unemployment, foreign trade and the role of macroeconomic policy.