The economist Philippe Martin, dean of the Sciences Po School of Public Affairs, has died at the age of 57, the Paris Institute of Political Studies (IEP) announced on Sunday, December 17, in a communicated.
“A brilliant and recognized economist (…) he was an eminent figure in our institution, from which he was a graduate and to which he devoted part of his career,” praised Sciences Po sur X. Philippe Martin was a “specialist, among others, questions of international economics and economic geography”, according to the press release from the IEP of Paris.
Advisor to Emmanuel Macron from 2015 to 2016 when he was Minister of the Economy, he was president of the Economic Analysis Council (CAE), an expert body attached to Matignon, from 2018 to 2022.
A “brilliant researcher”, according to Bruno Le Maire
Since February 2022, Philippe Martin has been the dean of the School of Public Affairs. The Minister of the Economy, Bruno Le Maire, deplored on The Minister for Public Accounts, Thomas Cazenave, praised on the social network “a talented economist” and the Minister of Transport, Clément Beaune, his “deep professional and friendly sadness at losing Philippe Martin”.
Former socialist minister Pierre Moscovici underlined “his finesse, his demands, his commitment”, regretting that he “left young, much too young”.