Hervé Boulhol has been a Senior Economist in the Directorate for Employment, Labour and Social Affairs of the OECD, responsible for the work on pensions and population ageing since March 2014. His current responsibility includes the flagship publication Pensions at a Glance and OECD Pension Reviews. Previously he worked in the Economics Department of the OECD, heading the France and Poland Desks, and for the Going-for-Growth publication. Prior to joining the OECD in 2007, he worked as an Economist in Natixis (2001-2007) and in financial markets (1989-2000) including as: Head of Interest Rate and FX Exotic Options at CDC Capital Markets (1998-2000), Head of Global Activities, CDC Capital, New York (1995-1998), and Head of International Bond Markets at the Caisse des Dépôts, Paris (1989-1995). He graduated as a Statisitcian, Economist and Actuary from the Ecole Nationale de Statistique et d’Administration Economique (ENSAE, 1989), and holds a Ph.D in Economics from Université Paris Panthéon-Sorbonne (2007) on the International competition and labor market interactions in developed countries under Lionel Fontagné. Author and co-author of numerous publications at the OECD and in highly ranked periodicals. [OECD collective publications led by Hervé Boulhol] • Pensions at a Glance (from 2015), http://oe.cd/pag • Promoting Active Ageing in Southeast Asia (2025), https://www.oecd.org/en/publications/promoting-active-ageing-in-southeast-asia_22849f38-en.html • Beyond Applause? Improving Working Conditions for Long-Term Care Workers (2024), http://oe.cd/beyond-applause-2023 • Co-led with Anne Sonnet, Working Better with Age and Fighting Unequal Ageing in the United States (2018), https://www.oecd.org/content/dam/oecd/en/publications/reports/2018/01/ageing-and-employment-policies-united-states-2018_g1g879cc/9789264190115-en.pdf • Preventing Ageing Unequally (2017), https://oe.cd/pau2017 • OECD Economic Surveys: France, 2011 and 2013, https://www.oecd.org/en/publications/serials/oecd-economic-surveys-france_g1gha3c6.html • OECD Economic Surveys: Poland, 2010, 2012 and 2014, https://www.oecd.org/en/publications/serials/oecd-economic-surveys-poland_g1gha414.html [Some other publications] • Boulhol, H., Lis, M. and M. Queisser (2023), Trends in Pension Reforms in OECD Countries, Chapter 14, Handbook on the Economics of Ageing, Routledge,https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9781003150398-16/trends-pension-reforms-oecd-countries-1-herv%C3%A9-boulhol-maciej-lis-monika-queisser • Boulhol, H., (2020), Towards a universal points system in France, Intereconomics, No. 55, https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10272-020-0875-3. • Boulhol, H. (2019), Objectives and challenges in the implementation of a universal pension system in France, OECD Economics Department Working Papers, No. 1553, OECD Publishing, Paris, https://dx.doi.org/10.1787/5a476f15-en. • Boulhol, H. and M. Lüske (2019), What’s new in the debate about pay-as-you-go vs funded pensions?, in Nazaré, D. and N. Cunha Rodrigues (eds.), The Future of Pension Plans in the EU Internal Market: Coping with Trade-Offs Between Social Rights and Capital Markets, Springer, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-29497-7 • Boulhol, H. and C. Geppert (2018), Population ageing: Pension policies alone will not prevent the decline in the relative size of the labour force, Vox EU, June, https://cepr.org/voxeu/columns/population-ageing-pension-policies-alone-will-not-prevent-decline-relative-size • Turner, L. and H. Boulhol (2011), Recent trends and structural breaks in US and EU15 labour productivity growth, Applied Economics, Vol. 43, Full article: Recent trends and structural breaks in the US and EU15 labour productivity growth. • Boulhol, H. (2011), Unemployment and relative labor market institutions between trading partners, Journal of International Economics, Vol. 83(1), https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022199610000905 • Boulhol, H. (2010), Pro-competitive effect of trade and non-decreasing price-cost margins”, Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, Vol. 72(3), https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1468-0084.2009.00580.x • Boulhol, H. and A. de Serres (2009), Have developed countries escaped the curse of distance?, Journal of Economic Geography, Vol.10 (1), https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1525258 • Boulhol, H. (2009), Do capital market and trade liberalization trigger labor market deregulation?, Journal of International Economics, Vol.77 (2), https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022199609000075