Lionel Fontagné is Professor of economics in the Paris School of Economics, Université Paris I Panthéon Sorbonne.
He is also a member of the Conseil d\'Analyse Economique (Council of Economic Analysis to the French Prime Minister), a scientific advisor to the Centre d’Etudes Prospectives et d’Informations Internationales (CEPII, Paris), and an advisor to the International Trade Center (UNCTAD-WTO, Geneva).
He has formerly been the Director of the CEPII, a Supply Professor at the Free University of Brussels and a Professor at the University of Nantes, as well as a consultant to the OECD Development Centre, to the OECD Directorate for Science Technology and Industry, to the Ministry of Finance of the Luxembourg, and to the French Ministry of Finance.
He has written numerous studies on international trade and integration issues. In 1999, Open Economies Review recognized Prof. Fontagné for his joint-contribution to the debate on the endogenous symmetry of shocks in monetary unions. In 2007, he was awarded the Reseach Fellowship of GTAP (Global Trade Analysis Project, Purdue University).