Claude Taffin
Director of Economic and Financial Studies
L'Union Sociale Pour L'Habitat

Claude Taffin is director of Economic and Financial Studies at "l'Union Sociale pour l'Habitat", the association of French social renters. He previously occupied a similar position at Credit Foncier, a mortgage bank. He was first a statistician in charge of housing at the National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies (INSEE). He has also been a statistician at the United Nations Headquarters and an advisor to the Ministry of Housing.

In parallel, he is the managing editor of "L'Observateur de l'immobilier", a review specialized in housing economy and finance and teaches housing economy at University Paris XII and Essec. As a consultant for the World Bank, he worked in Iran, Ivory coast, Jordan and Morocco.

Claude Taffin graduated at Ecole Polytechnique and Ecole Nationale de la Statistique et de l'Administration Economique.