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Judge in charge (President) - Paris Commercial Court. Jean Messinesi was elected President of the Paris Commercial Court in October 2016 and took office in January 2017, he had been a judge in that Court since 2006. He started his career in 1970 as an economist with the International Monetary Fund in Washington DC, six years later he returned to his home country where he worked for international banks, specializing in project and commodity trade finance. At the time of his retirement in 2015, he was Senior Advisor with HSBC for Maghreb countries. Jean Messinesi was born in 1943 in Paris. He holds a BA in law from Paris University, Law faculty Pantheon-Assas, and a Master of Public Administration from the Paris Institut d’Etudes Politiques.