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Jacques Attali is a prominent French economist, author, businessman, and government adviser. He was the first President of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), where he promoted investments aimed at protecting nuclear power plants and the environment, developing infrastructure, and reinforcing private sector competitiveness. Attali is also the President and founder of PlaNet Finance, a leading non-profit organization active in more than 80 countries, providing funding, technical assistance, and advisory services to 10,000 micro-finance players and stakeholders.
Since 2012, he has been a member of the supervisory board of Kepler Capital Markets, a Swiss broker based in Geneva. Attali led François Mitterrand’s presidential campaigns in 1974 and 1981. Once elected, Mitterrand appointed Attali as his special adviser and “sherpa” for the G7 summits. In 1985, Attali co-founded the European programme EUREKA, an inter-governmental initiative for new technologies, which developed, among other things, the MP3. Between 2008 and 2010, he led a government committee on stimulating growth in the French economy.
Attali is a frequent speaker and is regularly sought after as a commentator on current affairs by global media. In 2009, Foreign Policy Magazine included him in the Top 100 Global Thinkers list. He has authored over fifty books on topics ranging from economics to music, translated into more than twenty languages. His main work in economics and sociology examines trends in human history and their use in forecasting the future. In his influential book Millennium, Attali introduced the concept of a “nomad society” to characterize the nature of future civilization, which inspired the creation of the Java programming language by Bill Joy and John Gage at Sun Microsystems.
Jacques Attali is a prominent French economist, author, businessman, and government adviser. He was the first President of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), where he promoted investments aimed at protecting nuclear power plants and the environment, developing infrastructure, and reinforcing private sector competitiveness. Attali is also the President and founder of PlaNet Finance, a leading non-profit organization active in more than 80 countries, providing funding, technical assistance, and advisory services to 10,000 micro-finance players and stakeholders.
Since 2012, he has been a member of the supervisory board of Kepler Capital Markets, a Swiss broker based in Geneva. Attali led François Mitterrand’s presidential campaigns in 1974 and 1981. Once elected, Mitterrand appointed Attali as his special adviser and “sherpa” for the G7 summits. In 1985, Attali co-founded the European programme EUREKA, an inter-governmental initiative for new technologies, which developed, among other things, the MP3. Between 2008 and 2010, he led a government committee on stimulating growth in the French economy.
Attali is a frequent speaker and is regularly sought after as a commentator on current affairs by global media. In 2009, Foreign Policy Magazine included him in the Top 100 Global Thinkers list. He has authored over fifty books on topics ranging from economics to music, translated into more than twenty languages. His main work in economics and sociology examines trends in human history and their use in forecasting the future. In his influential book Millennium, Attali introduced the concept of a “nomad society” to characterize the nature of future civilization, which inspired the creation of the Java programming language by Bill Joy and John Gage at Sun Microsystems.
