He is a member of the Circle of Economists and also belongs to the Council for Economic Analysis (since 2004) and to the International Conference of Economists of the Commercial Bank (ICCBE). He chairs the BusinessEurope Economic and Financial Affairs Commission, the Union of Industries of the European Community (UNICE, now BusinessEurope) and the Society for Political Economy (since 2004). Likewise, he is professor of Economics and Finance at the Magistère Banque Finance of the University of Paris II.