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Jewish and Algerian pied noir by origin, a polymath enarch by accom-plishment, Jacques Attali during 1981-1991 was a sort of intellectual shadow of the Elected King of France. Because of François Mitterrand's own formidable intellectual grasp of his office, Attali never appeared to be
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 self-educated person who achieved success in perfumery ("Bib et Bab" shop) in Algiers. He married Fernande Abécassis on 27 January 1943.
Jacques Attali is one of the most influential economic theorists in the French Socialist Party today and a close personal adviser to President Mitterand. He is also a distinguished scholar, the author of a dozen books whose subjects range from political economy to euthanasia and music.
Jacques Attali was born on 1 November 1943 in Algiers (Algeria), into a Jewish family. Polytechnician, enarch, economist and political advisor to the President of the Republic François Mitterrand for ten years, Attali is the founder of 4 international institutions: Action Against Hunger, EUREKA, EBRD and Positive Planet.
Oct 25, 2016 · In “Verbatim I (1993),” Attali wrote that “fascinated by the destiny of the Jewish people, furiously anti-Hitler, [Mitterrand] looked on genocide coldly; he saw [the Holocaust] as an exploit ...
Aug 30, 1987 · The author, Jacques Attali, is, at age 42, the closest adviser of France’s president, Francois Mitterrand. Attali obviously admires Warburg greatly, calling him “the prince of finance, the...
Before taking office in the Socialist government, Attali was very active in Jewish affairs and held the post of vice president of the Fonds Social Juif. In 1990 Attali was appointed to a four-year term as president of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (berd) with headquarters in London.
