Jacques Attali

Jacques José Mardoché Attali born 1 November 1943 is a French economic and social theorist writer political adviser and senior civil servant Very prolific writer between 1969 and 2023 in 54 years Attali published 86 books Attali served as a counselor to President François Mitterrand from 1981 to 1991 and was the first head of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development from 1991 to 1993 In 1997 upon the request of education minister Claude Allègre he proposed a reform of the higher education degrees system From 2008 to 2010 he led the government committee on how to ignite the growth of the French economy under President Nicolas Sarkozy Attali cofounded the European program EUREKA dedicated to the development of new technologies He also founded the nonprofit organization PlaNet Finance now called Positive Planet and is the head of Attali Associates AA an international consultancy firm on strategy corporate finance and venture capital Interested in the arts he has been nominated to serve on the board of the Musée dOrsay He has published more than fifty books including Verbatim 1981 Noise The Political Economy of Music 1985 Labyrinth in Culture and Society Pathways to Wisdom 1999 and A Brief History of the Future 2006 In 2009 Foreign Policy called him as one of the top 100 global thinkers in the world Jacques Attali was born on 1 November 1943 in Algiers Algeria with his twin brother Bernard Attali in a Jewish family His father Simon Attali is a selfeducated person who achieved success in perfumery Bib et Bab shop in Algiers He married Fernande Abécassis on 27 January 1943 On 11 February 1954 his mother gave birth to his sister Fabienne In 1956 two years after the beginning of the Algerian independence war 19541962 his father decided to move to Paris with his family Jacques and Bernard studied at the Lycée JansondeSailly in the 16th arrondissement where they met JeanLouis Bianco and Laurent Fabius In 1966 Jacques graduated from the École polytechnique first of the class of 1963 He also graduated from the École des mines Sciences Po and the École nationale dadministration third of the class of 1970 In 1968 while doing an internship at the prefecture of a French department Nièvre he met for the second time with François Mitterrand then President of the department whom he had met for the first time three years before in 1972 Attali received a PhD in economics from University Paris Dauphine for a thesis written under the supervision of Alain Cotta Michel Serres was among the jury of his PhD In 1970 when he was 27 he became a member of the Council of State In 1972 aged 29 he published his first two books Analyse économique de la vie politique and Modèles politiques for which he was awarded with a prize from the Academy of Sciences Jacques Attali taught economics from 1968 to 1985 at the Paris Dauphine University at the École polytechnique and at the École des Ponts et chaussées Source Article Jacques Attali from Wikipedia in English licensed under CCBYSA 30