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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 in early July was obliged to resign in disgrace - it made page one in international newspapers - from his presidency of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD).
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Jacques Attali was born on November, 1st 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 and jewelry trade (« Bib et Bab » shop) in Algiers. In 1956, two years after the beginning of the Algerian war (1954-1962), his father de...
In 1970, when he was 27, he became a member of the Council of State. In 1972, 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. He taught economics at the Paris-Dauphine University, at the Ecole polytechnique and at the Ecole des Ponts...
In 1990, during François Mitterrand’s second mandate, Jacques Attali gave up politics and left the Elysée Palace. He participated in the creation of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), in London, and became its first President. He had initiated the idea of this institution in 1989, before the fall of the Berlin wall, in ord...
On July, 24th 2007, Nicolas Sarkozy entrusted Jacques Attali with the presidence of a Commission dedicated to the study of the obstacles to economic growth, known as 'The Commission for the Liberation of the French Economic Growth'. This commission was composed of 42 members. They handed their report to the French President on January, 23rd 2008. T...
On September, 9th 2010, Jacques Attali was appointed as a member of the directorate of the Musée d’Orsay. Like Nicolas Sarkozy, Martine Aubry and Dominique Strauss-Kahn, he is a member of Le Siècle. Since 2010, he directs the Grenoble University orchestra with Patrick Souillot.
Cannibalism and Civilization: Life and Death in the History of Medicine(1984)Noise: The Political Economy of Music (1985) Translated by Brian Massumi. Foreword by Fredric Jameson, afterword by Susan McClary. University of Minnesota Press ISBN 0-8166-1287-0."A man of influence: Le destin d'un homme d'influence S.G. Warburg(1987)Millennium: Winners and Losers in the Coming Order(1992)Social innovationSound culturePlaNet FinanceFukushima Daiichi nuclear disasterJacques 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
Attali’s position as one of the leading intellectuals of the Parti socialiste, and his involvement in disputes pitting the party against various rivals—above all, the Parti communiste—. of base/superstructure relations advanced by Attali (Fredric Jameson, “Foreword,” in Attali, Noise, p. xi).
ATTALI, JACQUES (1943– ), French economist and special adviser to President Mitterrand. Attali was born in Algiers and was educated there and in France. In 1981 he was appointed special adviser to President Mitterrand and in that capacity was influential on both internal and foreign issues and was sent on several highly confidential missions.
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Jacques Attali has a PhD in economics, is a graduate from the Ecole Polytechnique and a State Councillor. Special advisor to French President François Mitterrand for ten years, he is the founder of four international institutions: Action Against Hunger, Eureka, EBRD, Positive Planet.
