Alain Minc (; born 15 April 1949) is a French businessman, political advisor and author.

Biography

Early life

Alain Minc was born on April 15, 1949 in Paris to a family of Jewish immigrants from Poland. His father, Joseph Minkowski, was a dentist and a member of the Communist Party. Alain Minc is a graduate of the

École nationale supérieure des mines de Paris Mines Paris - PSL, officially École nationale supérieure des mines de Paris (until May 2022 Mines ParisTech, also known as École des mines de Paris, ENSMP, Mines de Paris, les Mines, or Paris School of Mines), is a French grande école and a c ...

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and the

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Career

In 1979, he became CFO of

Compagnie de Saint-Gobain Compagnie de Saint-Gobain S.A. () is a French multinational corporation, founded in 1665 in Paris and headquartered on the outskirts of Paris, at La Défense and in Courbevoie. Originally a mirror manufacturer, it now also produces a variety o ...

. In 1981, he was selected to be one of the first ''Young Leaders'' of the

French-American Foundation The French-American Foundation is a privately funded, non-governmental organization established to promote bilateral relations between France and the United States on topics of importance to the two countries, with a focus on contact between upco ...

. In 1986, he became Vice-Chairman of CIR International and General Manager of Cerus, non-Italian affiliates of Benedetti Group. In 1991, he founded his own consultancy firm, AM Conseil. He has been the Chairman of ''

Le Monde ''Le Monde'' (; ) is a French daily afternoon newspaper. It is the main publication of Le Monde Group and reported an average circulation of 323,039 copies per issue in 2009, about 40,000 of which were sold abroad. It has had its own website si ...

s supervisory board. He sits on the board of directors of

Criteria CaixaCorp CaixaBank, S.A. (), formerly Criteria CaixaCorp, is a Spanish multinational financial services company. CaixaBank is based in Valencia, with operative offices in Madrid and Barcelona, Spain. It is Spain's third-largest lender by market value, afte ...

since 2007. He is also a board member of Prisa,

Fnac Fnac () is a large French retail chain selling cultural and electronic products, founded by André Essel and Max Théret in 1954. Its head office is in ''Le Flavia'' in Ivry-sur-Seine near Paris. It is an abbreviation of Fédération Nationale d ...

, Direct Energie,

Ingenico Ingenico is a merchant services technology company based in France, that facilitates secure electronic transactions. The company expanded as a manufacturer of point of sale (POS) payment terminals to also include complete merchant payment Saa ...

, and Yves Saint Laurent. He has been an advisor to Edouard Balladur,

François Pinault François Pinault (born 21 August 1936) is a French billionaire businessman, founder of the luxury group Kering and the investment holding company Artémis. Pinault started his business in the timber industry in the early 1960s. Taken public in ...

Vincent Bolloré Vincent Bolloré (born 1 April 1952) is a French billionaire businessman. He is the chairman and CEO of the investment group Bolloré. As of September 2021, his net worth is estimated at US$9 billion. Early life Bolloré was born in Boulogne- ...

, and ex-French President

Nicolas Sarkozy Nicolas Paul Stéphane Sarközy de Nagy-Bocsa (; ; born 28 January 1955) is a French politician who served as President of France from 2007 to 2012. Born in Paris, he is of Hungarian, Greek Jewish, and French origin. Mayor of Neuilly-sur-Se ...

."Les propos d'Alain Minc sur le pape font bondir les catholiques"
''Le Monde'', 26.08.10 He came under fire for criticizing

Pope Benedict XVI Pope Benedict XVI ( la, Benedictus XVI; it, Benedetto XVI; german: link=no, Benedikt XVI.; born Joseph Aloisius Ratzinger, , on 16 April 1927) is a retired prelate of the Catholic church who served as the head of the Church and the sovereign ...

's position on the

French Romani repatriation The deportation of Roma migrants from France was subject of intense political debate in France and internationally in 2009 and 2010. After two fatal incidents, President of France Nicolas Sarkozy vowed in July 2010 to evict at least half of the 539 ...

in 2010. He is a member of the

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. He is also a recipient of the

Legion of Honour The National Order of the Legion of Honour (french: Ordre national de la Légion d'honneur), formerly the Royal Order of the Legion of Honour ('), is the highest French order of merit, both military and civil. Established in 1802 by Napoleon, ...

. Since December 2011, he is President of the board of directors of ''

Société des Autoroutes du Nord et de l'Est de la France SANEF, Société des Autoroutes du Nord et de l'Est de la France (Northern and Eastern French Highways Corporation) is a motorway operator company in France. It operates motorways in the North and East of France as a result of concessions given by ...

'' (SANEF) which operates motorways in northeast France under a French government concession.

Bibliography

*''Ce monde qui vient'' *''Epître à nos nouveaux maîtres (2003) *''Les Prophètes du bonheur: historie personnelle de la pensée économique'' (2004) *''Rapport sur la France de l'an 2000'' *''Le Nouveau Moyen-âge'' *''Les vengeances des Nations'' *''La Machine égalitaire'' *''Rapport sur l´informatisation de la société'' *''Une sorte de Diable, les vies de John M. Keynes'' (2006) *''Le Crépuscule des petits dieux'' (2006) *''Une histoire de France'' (2008) *''Dix jours qui ébranleront le monde'' (2009) *''Une histoire politique des intellectuels'' (2010) *''L'âme des nations'' (2012) *''Vive l Allemagne'' (2013)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Minc, Alain 1949 births Living people French political consultants French people of Polish-Jewish descent Recipients of the Legion of Honour French male writers Businesspeople from Paris École nationale d'administration alumni Sciences Po alumni Mines Paris - PSL alumni Young Leaders of the French-American Foundation