Pascal Lamy (born 8 April 1947) is the Director-General of the World Trade Organization, a French political advisor, a businessman, and a former European Commissioner for Trade. Lamy is Honorary President of Paris-based think tank Notre Europe.

Born in Levallois-Perret, a suburb of Paris, he attended the HEC business school, the Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris (Sciences Po), and then the civil service college, the ENA, graduating second in his year of those specialising in economics.

Lamy then joined the civil service, and in this role he ended up serving as an adviser to Jacques Delors as Economics and Finance Minister and Pierre Mauroy as Prime Minister.