President, French Committee of Solidarity International; Senior Research Fellow, United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR); former Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Europe of the United Nations.

Since February 2003	President of the international NGO Political and Ethical Knowledge on Economic Activities (PEKEA), Rennes, France
Since January 2002	President, French Committee of Solidarity International, Paris, France
Since June 2000	Senior Research Fellow, United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR), Geneva, Switzerland Senior Research Fellow, New York City University, New York Director, Geneva Office of the U.N. Intellectual History Project, UNIHP, Geneva
Since April 1996	Vice-President, European Foundation for the Sustainable Development of the Regions (FEDRE)
October 1993 – May 2000	Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations and Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Europe of the United Nations
September 1985 – August 1993	Assistant to the Secretary-General of the United Nations and Deputy Secretary-General of the U.N. Conference on Commerce and Development (UNCTAD)
1983 - 1985	President, European Association of Development Institutes
1981 - 1985	Director, Centre d'études prospectives et d'informations internationales (CEPII), French research institute on the World economy
1978 - 1981	Directeur of Research, Development Center of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OCDE)
	Technical Assistant at the Ministry of Planning, Côte d’Ivoire, then in France at the Office of the Commissioner for Planning, at the National Institute for Statistics and Economic Research (INSEE), and at the Ministry of Cooperation
1973 - 1976	Member, Group of Experts on Quantitative Questions of the Commission of European Communities
1970 - 1986	Member of the International Society for Development
1960 - 1961	Served in the French navy as « Enseigne de Vaisseau de 2ème classe »
1958 - 1963	Studied mathematics, physics and economics at the Ecole polytechnique (1958-1960) and economics at the Ecole nationale de la statistique et de l'administration économique (ENSAE 1961-1963), Paris, France
Languages
	French and English (fully proficient in both languages)
Publications
2003	Unity and Diversity of Development : the UN Regional Commissions Perspective, Indiana University Press
2002	Démocratiser la mondialisation, entretiens avec Yves Berthelot et Boutros Boutros-Ghali, Editions Rocher
1977	Le Défi économique du Tiers Monde, La Documentation française
1973	Pour une nouvelle coopération, PUF
Distinctions
	Chevalier de la Légion d’Honneur
	Chevalier de l’Ordre du Mérite
	Officier de l’Ordre National de la Côte d’Ivoire