Yorick de Mombynes

Yorick de Mombynes is a Conseiller Maître at the Cour des Comptes, France's national audit office, a position he has held since January 2025. He previously served as Conseiller Référendaire at the same institution from 2017. He is a prominent commentator on Bitcoin, having published extensively on the subject in outlets including Les Echos, L'ADN, and the Polytechnique alumni journal La Jaune et la Rouge, and has spoken at events including Surfin'Bitcoin and the Université d'été d'économie politique in Aix-en-Provence. His public positions include opposition to central bank digital currencies, which he views as incompatible with Bitcoin, and support for Bitcoin as a monetary and political phenomenon he describes as a Copernican revolution.

Before returning to the Cour des Comptes, he served as an advisor to Prime Minister François Fillon at Matignon from 2007 to 2010, and subsequently held several senior roles at Total E&P, including VP for Kenya, Tanzania and Mozambique, and VP for Algeria and Mauritania, before departing in January 2016. Earlier in his career he lectured in politics and economics at Sciences Po Paris for nearly five years. He holds a degree in philosophy, is a graduate of ESCP and IEP Paris, and is a former student of ENA. He also authored a work on the aesthetic philosophy of Ayn Rand.