Pascal LAMY is the newly elected director general of the World Trade Organization, in Geneva, Switzerland. He is the former European Union Trade Commissioner; and former president of Notre Europe in Paris. He began his career in the civil service at the French Finance Ministry's auditing agency, the Inspection générale des Finances, and the Treasury Department. He later became adviser to Economics and Finance Minister Jacques Delors, and to Prime Minister Pierre Mauroy. From 1984 to 1994, Mr. Lamy worked in Brussels as chief of staff (chef de cabinet) to Commission President Jacques Delors, representing him at the G7. In November 1994 he joined the Crédit Lyonnais, where, under Jean Peyrelevade, he helped restructure the bank. After the privatization of Crédit Lyonnais, Mr. Lamy was appointed in July 1999 by Romano Prodi and the French government to the European Commission. In September 1999 the European Parliament confirmed him as Trade Commissioner. He is a graduate of France's leading business school, the Ecole des Hautes Etudes Commerciales (HEC), the Paris Institute of Political Studies ('Sciences Po') and the ENA Civil Service College (Ecole Nationale d'Administration). Mr. Lamy served as a faculty member of Salzburg Seminar Session 333: Europe on the Eve of the Year 2000, 1996.