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Nicolas Véron

Affiliation: Bruegel

A recognised expert on capital markets, financial services regulation, and corporate strategies, Nicolas Véron has been involved with the development of Bruegel since its inception in late 2002 and works there on a full-time basis as a Research Fellow since 2005.

Véron’s background is in both public policy and corporate finance. In his early career, he worked for the Saint-Gobain Group in Berlin, for Rothschilds in Paris, and as economic aide to the state representative (Préfet) in Lille, France. Between 1997 and 2000, he was the corporate adviser to France’s Labour Minister. He then became chief financial officer of a publicly-listed Internet company in Paris (2000-2002), and in mid-2002 founded ECIF, a financial-services consultancy.

He is the author of Smoke & Mirrors, Inc.: Accounting for Capitalism, a book on accounting standards and practices in a changing financial system (Cornell University Press, 2006), and of several policy papers and essays at Bruegel, including on the internationalisation of large companies, accounting standards, banking supervision, financing of high-growth firms, oversight of foreign investment, and rating agencies. Since March 2005 he also writes a column on business and markets for La Tribune, France’s second-leading business daily. He comments regularly on radio and TV including the BBC, CNBC, and Bloomberg TV.

Véron is a member of the Panel of Financial Services Experts to the European Parliament’s Economic and Monetary Affairs Committee, of the Corporate Disclosure Policy Council of the CFA Institute, and of the Accounting and Auditing Practices Committee of the International Corporate Governance Network. He has initial training from Ecole Polytechnique (Palaiseau, France) and Ecole des Mines in Paris and speaks fluent English, French, German, Italian and Spanish.

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Nicolas Véron's Latest Articles | 12

Europe Takes an Important Step Towards a European Banking Union

Dec 19, 2012| 

European leaders pieced together an historic compromise last week on a European banking union. This column argues that the agreement, which centred on banking supervision,... Read »

Europe’s Banking Union: Possible Next Steps on a Bumpy Path

Jul 6, 2012| 

For many, Europe’s latest summit on 29 June effectively promised a banking union. This column praises the move but argues that this remains just a bare bones promise... Read »

Is Europe Ready for Banking Union?

May 30, 2012| 

Many policymakers and academics are now agreed that a banking union, together with some form of fiscal union, is needed if the Eurozone is to emerge from the crisis... Read »

The European Debate on Bank Capital is Not Just About Europe

May 6, 2012| 

Europe’s finance ministers are currently deciding on the legislation intended to implement the Basel III international agreement on bank capital, leverage, liquidity,... Read »

Banking Union or Financial Repression? Europe Has Yet to Choose

May 1, 2012| 

In a bid to shore up the sorry state of Europe’s economies, there is now debate over the need for a European banking union to go with plans for a Eurozone fiscal... Read »

A New Era for Global Financial Standards

Mar 20, 2012| 

Are the regulators finally fighting back? This column argues that behind the headlines, those responsible for setting global financial standards are growing steadily... Read »

Europe Must Change Course on Banks

Dec 22, 2011| 

Despite emergency summits and last-minute reforms, there is still a large question mark hanging over the euro. This column argues that a chief cause of this is the... Read »

Europe Needs Institutional Creativity

Nov 28, 2011| 

When US President Barack Obama met German Chancellor Angela Merkel earlier this month, his advice was reportedly, “I guess you guys have to be creative here”.... Read »

Eurozone Banks Must Be Freed From National Capitals

Oct 13, 2011| 

Europe, and the Eurozone especially, is years into an economic crisis. This column argues that if the euro is to survive, Eurozone citizens will have to accept the... Read »

Markets, Politics and the Euro

Jun 24, 2011| 

As the Eurozone crisis continues, politicians are blaming the markets and the markets are blaming politicians. This column argues that the uneasy relationship between... Read »

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