Jean-Yves Naouri (born 1959) is a French political advisor and businessman. He is the former chief operating officer of

Publicis Publicis Groupe is a French multinational advertising and public relations company. One of the oldest and largest marketing and communications companies in the world by revenue, it is headquartered in Paris. After 1945, the little-known Paris ...

. He is the founder of JYN Consulting.

Early life

Jean-Yves Naouri was born on 19 November 1959 in

Bône Annaba ( ar, عنّابة, "Place of the Jujubes"; ber, Aânavaen), formerly known as Bon, Bona and Bône, is a seaport city in the northeastern corner of Algeria, close to the border with Tunisia. Annaba is near the small Seybouse River ...

French Algeria French Algeria (french: Alger to 1839, then afterwards; unofficially , ar, الجزائر المستعمرة), also known as Colonial Algeria, was the period of French colonisation of Algeria. French rule in the region began in 1830 with the ...

(now Algeria). His brother,

Jean-Charles Naouri Jean-Charles Naouri (born 8 March 1949 in Bône, Algeria) is a French businessman. He is Chairman, Chief Executive Officer and controlling shareholder of Groupe Casino. Education Naouri received his baccalaureat degree at only 15 years old ...

, is the majority shareholder, chairman and CEO of

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. Their family was Jewish; their father was a paediatrician. They emigrated to mainland France as children. Naouri graduated from the

École Polytechnique École may refer to: * an elementary school in the French educational stages normally followed by secondary education establishments (collège and lycée) * École (river), a tributary of the Seine flowing in région Île-de-France * École, Savoi ...

in 1979, followed by the

École des Mines École may refer to: * an elementary school in the French educational stages normally followed by secondary education Secondary education or post-primary education covers two phases on the International Standard Classification of Education scal ...

Career

Naouri started his career as a

Corps des mines The ''Corps des mines'' is the foremost technical Grand Corps of the French State (grands corps de l'Etat). It is composed of the state industrial engineers. The Corps is attached to the French Ministry of Economy and Finance. Its purpose is to e ...

, where he worked in the oil industry. He was appointed as an advisor to

Dominique Strauss-Kahn Dominique Gaston André Strauss-Kahn (; born 25 April 1949), also known as DSK, is a French economist and politician who served as the tenth managing director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), and was a member of the French Socialist P ...

, the Minister of Industry and Foreign Trade, in 1991. Naouri joined

as a founding partner of its Publicis Consultants subsidiary in 1993. He was subsequently promoted as president of Publicis Conseil, its advertising agency, and later oversaw its operations in the Nordics, Germany, Belgium, The Netherlands and Luxembourg. He served as the chief operating officer of

from 2010 to 2014. He also served as the CEO of Publicis Worldwide from March 2011 to October 2013. He served on the board of directors of Publicis until September 2014. In 2015, he sued Publicis for 20 million euros after they failed to give him his

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; he lost the lawsuit in 2016. Naouri is the founder of JYN Consulting, a consulting firm.

Personal life

Naouri is married. He has a son and two daughters.

References

Living people 1959 births People from Annaba French people of Algerian-Jewish descent École Polytechnique alumni Mines Paris - PSL alumni 20th-century French businesspeople 21st-century French businesspeople {{France-business-bio-stub