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Michel Pébereau graduated from Ecole Polytechnique and is Inspecteur Général des Finances. He is currently Chairman of the Board of BNP Paribas, and has been Chairman of the European Banking Federation since November 2004. He is Chairman of the International Monetary Conference; Member of the International Advisory Panel of the Monetary Authority of Singapore; and Member of the International Capital Markets Advisory Committee of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. He was Chairman and CEO of BNP from 1993 to 2000, and set up BNP Paribas during his mandate in August 1999. He became Chairman and CEO of BNP Paribas from 2000 to 2003, and has been Chairman of BNP Paribas since June 2003. In 2001, he was rewarded "Financial Executive of the Year" by the Association Nationale des Docteurs ès Sciences Economiques (the French national association of PhDs in economics). This award celebrates the manager who contributed the most to the development of the financial business in France during the year. That same year, he was also awarded "Strategist of the Year," by the economic daily paper La Tribune. He was Professor for 20 years at the Institut d'Etudes Politiques (IEP) of Paris from 1980 to 2000, and has been chairing its Management Committee since 1988. He published a book entitled la politique économique de la France and as a great specialist in science fiction, critics of books in La Recherche magazine during many years, and today in the Sunday paper Le Journal du Dimanche.