Pascal Lamy
| Pascal Lamy | |
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| Director-General of the World Trade Organization | |
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In office 1 September 2005 – 1 September 2013 |
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| Preceded by | Supachai Panitchpakdi |
| Succeeded by | Roberto Azevêdo |
| European Commissioner for Trade | |
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In office 13 September 1999 – 22 November 2004 |
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| President | Romano Prodi |
| Preceded by | Leon Brittan |
| Succeeded by | Peter Mandelson |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
8 April 1947 Levallois-Perret, France |
| Political party | Socialist Party |
| Spouse(s) | Geneviève Lamy |
| Alma mater |
Institute of Political Studies, Paris School of High Commercial Studies, Paris National School of Administration, Strasbourg |
Pascal Lamy (born 8 April 1947) is a French political consultant and businessman. He was the Director-General of the World Trade Organization (WTO) until 1 September 2013. His appointment took effect on 1 September 2005 for a four-year term. In April 2009, WTO members reappointed Lamy for a second four-year term, beginning on 1 September 2009. He was then succeeded by Roberto Azevêdo. Pascal Lamy was also European Commissioner for Trade and is currently the Honorary President of the Paris-based think tank, Notre Europe.
Born in Levallois-Perret, Hauts-de-Seine, a suburb of Paris, Lamy studied at Sciences Po Paris, from HEC and ÉNA, graduating second in his year of those specialising in economics. Lamy is also an honorary graduate of the University of Warwick.
He then joined the civil service, and in this role he ended up serving as an adviser to Jacques Delors as Economics and Finance Minister and Pierre Mauroy as Prime Minister.
Lamy has been a member of the French Socialist Party since 1969.
When Delors became President of the European Commission in 1984, he took Lamy with him to serve as chef de cabinet, which he did until the end of Delors' term in 1994. During his time there, Lamy became known as the Beast of the Berlaymont, the Gendarme and Exocet due to his habit of ordering civil servants, even Directors-General (head of departments) "precisely what to do – or else." He was seen as ruling Delors' office with a "rod of iron", with no-one able to bypass or manipulate him and those who tried being "banished to one of the less pleasant European postings".
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