Xavier Musca

Xavier Musca ( born February 23, 1960 in Bastia, Haute- Corse, Corsica ) is a French ministry official and economics expert, last Secretary General ( secrétaire général), ie the highest-ranking official at the Elysee Palace, the authority of the French President.

Musca is the son of an official of the former PTT (national post). He grew up in Vico, a village near the west coast of the island, where he met Marie -Dominique Culioli who later became the first wife of current President Nicolas Sarkozy. Musca studied at the elite university Sciences Po, where Nicolas Sarkozy was his fellow student. Subsequently, he attended the School of Administration ENA. There he was in 1985 his final exam.

In 1989 he came to the Ministry of Finance. In 1990, he negotiated under Jean- Claude Trichet to the Maastricht Treaty. From 1993 he was an adviser to Prime Minister Édouard Balladur. He was Head of Cabinet of the new Finance Minister Francis Mer 2002, 2004 he was Director General at the Ministry of Finance for the Department Trésor. He was president of the Paris Club, negotiated under the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank.

2009 Musca was Deputy Secretary-General to the Presidency under Claude Gueant. On 27 February 2011, he followed after this. With the end of the term of office of Nicolas Sarkozy also Musca resigned from his position on May 15, 2012. His position at the Elysée Palace corresponded approximately to the head of the Federal Chancellery in Germany. His successor Pierre -René Lemas was nominated. Musca was Deputy Director General of Crédit Agricole.