Hélène Rey

Hélène Rey    (economist)
Born	1970 Brioude, France
Nationality	French
Alma mater	ENSAE ParisTech, Stanford University, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, London School of Economics
Spouse	Richard Portes
Member of	Centre for European Reform, French Covid debt commission, Group of Thirty, Institut Montaigne
Single Bilderberger LSE economist found by Ben Bernanke.  Professor of Economics In office 2006 - Present Employer London School of Economics Attended Bilderberg/2013

Hélène Rey is a French economist who was Professor at London Business School and advisor to the French government when she attended the 2013 Bilderberg meeting. In 2021-22 she was member of High-Level Group on post Covid Economic and Social Challenges (advisory to EU Commissioner Paolo Gentiloni).

Early life and education

The daughter of a teacher and an engineer, Rey was born in Brioude of South-Central France in 1970, where she lived for the early years of her life, speaking both French and English.

Rey received her undergraduate degree from ENSAE Paris in 1994 and a Master of Science degree in Engineering Economic Systems from Stanford University the same year, where she caught the attention of of department chairman Ben Bernanke, later chairman of the US Federal Reserve. She has Ph.Ds from Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales and London School of Economics, both in 1998.

Career

After working as a lecturer at LSE 1997–2000 Rey was assistant professor and later professor (2006) at Princeton University where she also worked at Bendheim Center for Finance and Woodrow Wilson School.

Rey was a member of the Conseil d'Analyse Économique which advises the French Prime Minister on economic matters from 2010 to 2012, and since 2012 has been a member of the Commission Economique de la Nation which advises the Finance Minister of France.

Rey is a regular contributor the French magazine Les Échos. She became a co-editor of the Annual Review of Economics as of 2019.

In 2013 Rey became the first woman to win the Yrjö Jahnsson Award, sharing the prize with Thomas Piketty. Rey was also awarded the Inaugural Carl Menger Preis in 2014, the 2015 Prix Edouard Bonnefous, the 2017 Maurice Allais Prize and the 2020 Prix Turgot.

Supranational deep state policies

Like all economists, she gets showered with honors and a luxurious lifestyle for "saying the right things":

In 2016, she proposed a "large, coordinated plan to defend European borders, provide collective security and secure safe routes for asylum seekers. At the same time, Europeans have to invest massively in protecting asylum seekers, building homes and integrating them. There should be some sharing of defense spending, including for operations on foreign soil aiming at achieving collective security in Europe. There should be coordinated diplomatic efforts....Scaling up European spending on these set of projects to reach several tens of billions of euros is warranted and probably the best investment Europe can make now."

She wants a strong European banking union with a common supervisor and pooled funds to deal with large bank failures. "This would break the deadly link between state bankruptcy and the banking sector bankruptcy."

She opined that the United States was "providing some sort of global insurance to the world economy and the rest of the world—earning the equivalent of an insurance premium in good times and paying out in bad times. And that’s exactly what we see in the data."

In 2021-22 she was member of High-Level Group on post Covid Economic and Social Challenges (advisory to EU Commissioner Paolo Gentiloni).

Family

Her husband is Richard Portes, a US-born economist and fellow LBS professor, who founded CEPR, the network of European economists.

 

Events Participated in

Event	Start	End	Location(s)	Description
Bilderberg/2013	6 June 2013	9 June 2013	Watford UK	The 2013 Bilderberg group meeting.
WEF/Annual Meeting/2013	23 January 2013	27 January 2013	World Economic Forum Switzerland	2500 mostly unelected leaders met to discuss "leading through adversity"
WEF/Annual Meeting/2014	22 January 2014	25 January 2014	World Economic Forum Switzerland	2604 guests in Davos considered "Reshaping The World"
WEF/Annual Meeting/2017	17 January 2017	20 January 2017	World Economic Forum Switzerland	2950 known participants, including prominently Bill Gates. "Offers a platform for the most effective and engaged leaders to achieve common goals for greater societal leadership."

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