Jean-Pierre Landau has worked in the French Government and Central Bank for most of his career. He has served as Executive Director for France at the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank from 1989 to 1993. He was then appointed Undersecretary for External Economic Relations  at the Ministry of Finance. He was Treasury Representative in London and Executive Director at the EBRD from 2000 to 2006. He served as Deputy Governor of the Banque de France from 2006 to 2011.He is currently at the Economic Department of Sciences Po. He has been Visiting Lecturer at Princeton University (Woodrow Wilson School) in 2012 and Visiting professor at SAIS (Johns Hopkins University – Washington DC) in 1992-93.