Claude DIEBOLT is Directeur de Recherche (Research Professor) in economics (esp. cliometrics) for the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique - CNRS (French National Agency for Scientific Research and Director of the Bureau d'Economie Théorique et Appliquée - BETA, a CNRS institute located at the Universities of Strasbourg and Nancy. He is also Founding President of the Association Française de Cliométrie French Cliometric Society), Founding Managing Editor of Cliometrica Springer Verlag), and member of the Board of Trustees of the American Cliometric Society. His research interests and publication domains are cliometrics, macroeconomics, time series econometrics and history of economic thought. He teaches cliometrics at the Humboldt University in Berlin and the University of Strasbourg.