Who is Pascal Lamy?
Pascal Lamy is the eighth Director-General of the World Trade Organization (WTO). He took the position in 2005, taking over from Supachai Panitchpakdi. Pascal Lamy is, like his counterpart at the International Monetary Fund (IMF), a member of the French Socialist Party, and has been since 1969. Pascal Lamy was born in the suburbs of Paris in 1947, and went on to study economics at the HEC business school, later at Sciences Po, and finally at the ENA. He went on to advise various political candidates, including the Minister of Economics and Finance, Jacques Delor, and the Prime Minister, Pierre Mauroy. In 1984 Jacques Delor was elected President of the European Commission, and Pascal Lamy came with him as his Chief of Staff, a position he held for ten years. It was during his time under Delor that Pascal Lamy got a reputation as a fierce and precise man, who would give strict instructions on how to do things to everyone he would run into, including the heads of departments at the Europe
