Elisabeth Lulin (France)

Elisabeth Lulin is founder and general manager of Paradigmes et caetera, a public policy consultancy based in Paris. Paradigmes specialises in benchmarking and future search of public policies. The company advises government agencies as well as private companies. Major clients include Veolia Environnement, EADS, EDF, Ministère de l’équipement, Délégation interministérielle à la réforme de l’Etat, Agence centrale des organismes de Sécurité sociale.

In addition to running Paradigmes, Elisabeth has been a member of the board of directors (since 2003), and of the board’s audit committee (since 2004) of Société générale, one of the main European banking groups, listed in Paris.

As a side activity, Elisabeth has been teaching in various educational institutions over the past ten years. She is currently an affiliate professor in public management at the Parisian business school ESCP-EAP. She was formerly a lecturer at the Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris (1998-1999) and at the Conservatoire national des arts et métiers (1995-1999).

Over the last couple of years Elisabeth has been invited to participate in a number of government appointed advisory commissions: the advisory commission set up by the Minister of Economy, Finance and Industry, chaired by Maurice Levy and Jean-Pierre Jouyet, on rethinking economic growth and regulation to take account of the growing importance of intangible assets (2006); the advisory commission set up by the Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin, chaired by Pr Alain Lancelot, on concentration in the media industry (2005); the advisory commission set up by the Minister of Economy, Finance and Industry Nicolas Sarkozy, chaired by Michel Camdessus, on relaunching economic growth in France (2004);  the advisory commission set up by the President of the Republic, chaired by Jean-Pierre Landau, on financing sustainable development (2003)

Elisabeth is also involved in a series of non-profit activities: she is a member of the editorial committee of Sociétal, a quarterly review dealing with economic and social issues; a member of the board of directors and/or of the advisory committee of a number of think tanks (Institut Aspen France, the French sister organisation of the American Aspen Institute; The Lisbon Council, a network of European think tanks supporting the Lisbon Agenda; Institut Montaigne, Fondation pour l’innovation politique and Fondation Robert Schumann, all three of them being French public policy groups, the latter focused on European issues; Centre français sur les Etats-Unis, the major French research centre on the United States, hosted by IFRI, the Institut français des relations internationales). Elisabeth chairs Futurbulences, an idea lab dedicated to “politics fiction” that she created in 2003.
Prior to founding Paradigmes, Elisabeth was junior adviser to Prime Minister Edouard Balladur (1994-1995), then head of the communication and marketing department of INSEE, the French National Institute for Statistics and Economic Research (1996-1998). She started her career at the Inspection Générale des Finances (1991-1994).

Elisabeth graduated from Ecole Normale Supérieure (1985), Institut d’Etudes Politiques (1987) and Ecole Nationale d’Administration (1989-1991). She also holds an agrégation de lettres modernes, and has earned a number of distinctions, most recently the Henry Crown Fellowship of the Aspen Institute of the United States and a nomination to INSEAD alumni association’s annual award for Economic and Social Thought.
Elisabeth was born in 1966, is married and has four children.