Nicolas Véron is a scholar both at Bruegel, which he cofounded and at the Peterson Institute for International Economics, which he joined in 2009. His research is primarily about financial systems and financial services policy. A graduate of France’s Ecole Polytechnique and Ecole des Mines, he held senior positions in the French government and private sector in the 1990s and early 2000s. He is also an independent board member of the global derivatives trade repository arm of Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC), a financial infrastructure company that operates on a non-profit basis. In September 2012, Bloomberg Markets included Mr. Véron in its yearly global “50 Most Influential” list, with reference to his early advocacy of European banking union.