2. France

Mathieu Plane is a Deputy Director of the Analysis and Forecasting Department at the OFCE Research Center in Economics, Sciences Po, Paris. He is in charge of economic forecasts for the French economy and works on economic policy issues. He teaches at Sciences Po, Paris and at the University of Paris Pantheon-Sorbonne. He was, in 2013–2014, economic advisor to the Ministers of Economy, Industry, and the Digital Sector. He has recently published, in collaboration with other authors of the OFCE, What Trajectory for France’s Public Finances?, Uncertain Growth: Economic Outlook for the French Economy 2025–2026, and French Economy 2026 by Éditions La Découverte, Repères collection.

Francesco Saraceno is Deputy Department Director at OFCE, the research centre in economics at Sciences Po in Paris, and Professor of Practice at LEAP-Luiss, Rome. He holds PhDs in Economics from Columbia University and the Sapienza University of Rome. His research focuses on the relationship between inequality, macroeconomic performance, and European macroeconomic policies. From 2000 to 2002 he was a member of the Council of Economic Advisors for the Italian Prime Minister’s Office. He teaches international and European macroeconomics at Sciences Po, where he manages the Economics concentration of the Master’s in European Affairs, and in Rome (Luiss). He is Academic Director of the Sciences Po-Northwestern European Affairs Program. He advises the International Labour Organization (ILO) on macroeconomic policies for employment and participates in IMF training programmes on fiscal policy

Anissa Saumtally completed her PhD at the University of Bordeaux, after graduating from the London School of Economics with a BSc in economics. Her doctoral works focused on economic modelling in innovation and development economics, studying technological and economic catching up. She has previously worked at the French Directorate of the Treasury, where she worked on the Opale macroeconomic forecasting model used for the French budgetary laws. She is currently working at the OFCE (Sciences Po Paris) in the department of environmental economics where she contributes to the development of the ThreeME macroeconomic multisectoral model used for the analysis of environmental and energy policies.