Erik IZRAELEWICZ

Graduate of the HEC business school (1976) and the Centre de formation des journalistes (1978). He has a PhD in international economics (1979). He was editor at l'Expansion from 1981 to 1984, editor at the Tribune de l'Économie from 1985 to 1986, head of the economics department at the newspaper Le Monde from 1986 to 1992, correspondent in New York for Le Monde between 1993 and 1994, lead writer for Le Monde from 1994 to 1996 before becoming editor in chief until January 2000. He was the editorial writer at Les Échos from 2000 to 2004, and then assistant managing editor. He has been managing editor at Les Échos since October 1st 2007. In 1997, he published Ce monde qui nous attend (pub. Grasset), and Le Capitalisme zinzin two years later (Grasset). He won the prize for the best economics book in 2000, Monsieur Ni-Ni, l'économie selon Jospin co-written with Christine Mital (pub. Robert Laffont, 2002), and published Quand la Chine change le monde in 2005 (Grasset).