The Chair in Sovereign Debt and Finance is a research unit hosted at Sciences Po Paris by the Paris School of International Affairs and the Department of Economics. It addresses Sciences Po’s core mission “to better understand the world in order to change it for the better” and is at the core of the search for solutions to debt sustainability and the strengthening of the international financial architecture to tackle global problems such as climate change, global poverty, and geopolitical fragmentation.

The Chair’s objective is to advance policy-oriented research on sovereign debt and the international financial architecture and to promote better policies and practice. Through disciplinary strengths, and interdisciplinary and collaborative approaches, we conduct rigorous, impartial, evidence-based research and uses the insights from this work to generate knowledge, foster public debate and influence policies.

The Chair was established as Chair in Sovereign Debt in November 2019. During its first term (2020-2022), it was solely funded by Global Sovereign Advisory.