Thierry Philipponnat


Thierry Philipponnat is an economist specialising in finance and on the link between economic theory and practice. He is Head of Research and Advocacy at Finance Watch.

Career

Educated in France and in the United States, he is a graduate of Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris and holds a master's degree in economics.
Philipponnat was a banker and a financial markets professional for twenty years. In 2004, he became a member of the Executive Committees of Euronext and of the London Financial Futures and options Exchange.
Since 2006, he has been focusing on the study of the link between the economy, finance and society. He was a member of the Executive Board of Amnesty international france|Amnesty International France and became involved in different campaigns related to the impact of business on human rights. In 2009 and 2010, he represented Amnesty International with United Nations Secretary-General's Special representative on Business and Human Rights John Ruggie and with the European Commission on Corporate Social responsibility issues.
He founded Finance Watch in April 2011 as an NGO specialised in financial regulation, and led the organisation until May 2014. During his mandate, he intervened on many occasions in parliamentary hearings in Brussels, Paris, Berlin and London, on European financial regulations issues, on national regulations dealing with banking structure, on the financial crisis and on the Libor and :fr:Euribor|Euribor scandals and high frequency trading.
In April 2013, he received the Theodor Heuss medal in Stuttgart on behalf of Finance Watch in recognition of the work done for the public interest. On 7 October 2013, he gave the inaugural lecture of Université catholique de Louvain on the necessity to strike the right balance between private interests and public interest.
He was then the director of the economic think tank Institut Friedland, and a member of the French sustainable Investment Forum, an organisation that he chaired between June 2015 and June 2017.
In 2019, he joined Finance Watch again as Head of Research and Advocacy.
He holds also two financial regulation mandates, both as a member of the Board of the French Financial Markets Authority.

Publications