 In 2012, he was included in the global 50 Most Influential list of Bloomberg Markets Magazine.Véron is an alumnus of École Polytechnique and of École nationale supérieure des mines de Paris where he received the Corps des mines training.He was a French civil servant from 1995 to 2000, first in the Prefecture in Lille then as the corporate advisor to Labor Minister Martine Aubry in the Jospin government.