Jacques Attali

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Jacques Attali
Attali in Rovereto, 2012
President of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development
In office April 1991 – June 1993
Preceded by	Position created
Succeeded by	Jacques de Larosière
Personal details
Born	Jacques José Mardoché Attali (1943-11-01) 1 November 1943 (age 81) Algiers, French Algeria
Nationality	French
Relatives	Bernard Attali (twin brother)
Alma mater	École Polytechnique École des Mines Sciences Po École nationale d'administration Paris Dauphine University
Occupation	Economist, writer, senior civil servant

Jacques José Mardoché Attali (French pronunciation: [ʒak atali]; born 1 November 1943) is a French economic and social theorist, writer, political adviser and senior civil servant.

A very prolific writer, Attali published 86 books in 54 years, between 1969 and 2023.

Attali served as a counselor to President François Mitterrand from 1981 to 1991, and was the first head of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development from 1991 to 1993. In 1997, upon the request of education minister Claude Allègre, he proposed a reform of the higher education degrees system. From 2008 to 2010, he led the government committee on how to ignite the growth of the French economy, under President Nicolas Sarkozy.

Attali co-founded the European program EUREKA, dedicated to the development of new technologies. He also founded the non-profit organization PlaNet Finance, now called Positive Planet, and is the head of Attali & Associates (A&A), an international consultancy firm on strategy, corporate finance and venture capital. Interested in the arts, he has been nominated to serve on the board of the Musée d’Orsay. He has published more than fifty books, including Verbatim (1981), Noise: The Political Economy of Music (1985), Labyrinth in Culture and Society: Pathways to Wisdom (1999), and A Brief History of the Future (2006).

In 2009, Foreign Policy called him as one of the top 100 "global thinkers" in the world.^[1]