Jérôme Sgard has a PhD in Economics from Université de Paris-X-Nanterre. He has joined Sciences-Po in 2008, first as a Research Professor then as a Professor of Political Economy (2012). At Sciences-Po he is a member of the Centre d’Etudes et de Recherches Internationales (CERI). Before that he had been was a senior researcher at CEPII, also in Paris, and a ‘Professeur Associé’ at Université de Paris-IX-Dauphine. During the 1990s he worked on economic reforms in Eastern Europe and Russia (Europe de l’Est, la transition économique, 1997), and on financial crisis in emerging economies (see L’Economie de la Panique, 2002).

More recently, his research interests have shifted to a historical approach to the architecture of markets, seen from the perspective of judges, arbiters or bureaucrats. This includes works on the role of IMF in restructuring sovereign debts, the history of private bankruptcies and the early history of international commercial arbitration. He has published eg in World Economy, the European Review of Economic History, The Economic History Review, the Journal of Comparative Economics, Global Constitutionalism, or the International Review of Law and Economics.