Jacques Attali

Jacques Attali ( born 1 November 1943 in Algiers ) is a French economist, author and senior officials. He was a long -time advisor to the French President François Mitterrand.

Biography

Jacques Attali's father Simon ran a perfumery in Algiers. Prior to the independence of Algeria in 1957, he moved with his family as a Pied- noir to Paris. Attali has a twin brother, Bernard, 1988-1993 Chief Executive Officer of Air France air line. Both brothers attended the Lycée Janson de Sailly and were school friends of the French politician Jean -Louis Bianco and Laurent Fabius. Attali made ​​in 1968 for an internship at the École nationale d'administration in Nièvre and met for the first time on François Mitterrand.

Attali is Professor, Doctor of Economics and is a graduate of the Ecole Polytechnique, Mines ParisTech, Institut d' études politiques of Paris and the École nationale d'administration.

Political life

With 27 years Attali was a member of the French Council of State. In 1972 he published his first two books: Economic analysis of political life and political models, and was awarded the prize of the Academy of Sciences.

As a professor at the University of Paris -Dauphine, he gathered some young researchers are: Yves Stourdzé, founder of the European research program EUREKA or Erik Arnoult aka Erik Orsenna, winner of the Prix Goncourt in 1988 and Special Advisor to Roland Dumas in the Foreign Ministry at the Quay d' Orsay. Attali it, very different senior and his par with figures from journalism, science, show business and financial world to gather around understood. He has excellent contacts, such as Raymond Barre, Jacques Delors, Jean -Luc Lagardère, Antoine Ribaud, Coluche and Michel Serres.

1973 Attali met with François Mitterrand. With Mitterrand's move into the Elysee Palace in 1981 Attali was his special adviser. From his appointment also benefited his friends Jean -Louis Bianco and Alain Boublil and some young ENA graduates as François Hollande and Ségolène Royal.

1982 pleaded Attali for economic austerity. He also had another task: Attali, Mitterrand was Sherpa for the G-7 Summit. He was the organizer of the 200 - year celebration of the French Revolution on July 14, 1989, the Summit of the G7 in Paris.

Every year he published a book, often written very quickly. What was intended as a polemic, was the repeated quotation bond without quotes. Every Saturday night during the period of François Mitterrand, he organized a dinner at his home in Neuilly. He edited every night his memo for the president to economics, culture, politics, and the most recent books he had read or skimmed.

During Mitterrand's second seven -year term Attali left the Elysee Palace. He became president of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development ( EBRD) in London, an institution that coordinated the reconstruction of the Eastern European countries. The balance of his time on this item was very controversial. Attali was forced after a financial scandal to resign in July 1993 by its president.

Attali is president of a consulting firm specializing in new technologies and founder of PlaNet Finance, an international non-profit organization against poverty.

The author

Attali has been written more than thirty books, including essays, novels, historical essays and biographies (Karl Marx, François Mitterrand ). He also wrote plays and stories for children and works as a columnist for the magazine L'Express.

Utterances

Attali is an advocate of European federalism and believes in the discussion "Without federalism, the euro will disappear," that Germany in 20 years would be " sick man " of Europe because of lack of long-term goals of the. Attali raises Germany before, not to represent the European federalism enough:

"I tell them, Germany is 20 years from the sick man ' in Europe, because it measures the weakness of a nation at the demographics and the ability to long-term strategies. Germany has no long -term strategy [ ... ] Rather, it is to try to make our German friends clear that European federalism is in their own interest. If the crisis expands, if Greece leaves the euro, when Spain and Italy do the same, then the euro would rise very high, it is already too strong, and the export-oriented Germany latter will become a tragic situation. "

In 2013 he repeated his comments and stated that the low German unemployment was " a joke when people work for five euros per hour. " The German banking system is bankrupt, and Germany " a veraltendes country with disastrous primary schools and declining productivity because most export products being copied " the status as world champion in exports does not impress him ." This country must be in such a good situation and save to come later, halfway through the rounds today. Germany's future is tricky at such a low birth rate. "