• President, EcoMod• Professor of Economics, Free University of Brussels (ULB).• Research Professor, German Institute for Economic Research (Deutsche Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung, DIW Berlin).• Selected member of several high level international policy and research networks• Member of editorial boards of several international academic journals• Former Principal Administrator of the Econometric Modeling Unit of the European CommissionInitiated, led and co-coordinated a large number of policy-oriented projects using advanced econometric and CGE modeling techniques in the fields of energy and environmental issues, labor market, tax policy, innovation, research & development, social security, macroeconomic policy, public finance, forecasting, sectoral issues, regional policy, European Economic and Monetary Union, WTO related issues, trade analysis, regional integration, development economics, national security, oil producing and transition economies, GCC, Middle East and North African economies, Central and Latin American countries, European and Asian economies.Provided advisory and training services to the OECD, the IMF, the World Bank, the European Central Bank, the Federal Reserve, many USA government agencies, the US Congress, the European Commission, the Eurostat, the UNCTAD, the UNDP, the International Labor Organization, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, the World Trade Organization, Asian Development Bank, Inter-American Development Bank, many governments, central banks, public organizations and private companies. Trained and advised professionals from more than 120 countries in the development and use of economic models and economic policy analysis.Specialties: Policy modeling (macroeconometric, general equilibrium, optimization, system dynamics, agent-based modeling), large number of programming languages.