Curriculum Vitae

Nationality : French

Personal details:

Born 8 April 1947 in Levallois-Perret, France
Married with three sons

Education

MBA (HEC)
Diplôme d'Etudes supérieures de droit (law diploma)
Institut d'Etudes politiques (political science studies)
Ecole nationale d'administration (ENA, civil servants' college)

Professional career

1975-1979 Inspection générale des Finances (Finance Ministry's auditing agency)
1979-1981 Treasury Department
1981-1983 Adviser to Economics and Finance Minister, Jacques Delors
1983-1984 Deputy chief of staff to PM Pierre Mauroy
1985-1994 Chief of staff and representative of EC Commission President Jacques Delors
1994 Member of team responsible for restructuring Crédit Lyonnais (then Director-General)
1999 Member of European Commission, responsible for Trade

Political career

1985 – 1994 Member of French Socialist Party's steering committee
Since 1995 Member of the Central Office (Bureau) of the Mouvement européen (France)

Honours

1991 Grosses Verdienstkreuz, Germany's highest civilian Order of Merit
1995 Commandeur de l'ordre national du mérite Luxembourgeois (Commander of Luxembourg national order of merit)
1999 Officier de la Légion d'Honneur (officer of the legion of honour)
2000 Officer of Gabon's Order of Merit
2003 Order of the Aztec Eagle

Publications

1979 Rapport sur l'aide sociale à l'enfance avec JL Bianco (la documentation française)
1991 Choses vues ...d'Europe" Revue Esprit
1993 "Monde-Europe" (Editions Dunod)
2002 "L'Europe que nous voulons"- avec J. Pisani Ferry (Editions Plon)
« The Europe we want « (Editions Arch press)
2002 "L'Europe en première ligne" (Editions du Seuil)
2004 : "La Démocratie-monde - Pour une autre gouvernance globale" (Editions du Seuil)

Hobbies

Running, cycling