Jérôme Monod (7 September 1930 – 18 August 2016) was a French business executive and political advisor. He was the chairman of Lyonnaise des eaux, later known as Suez-Lyonnaise, from 1980 to 2000. He was an advisor to President

Jacques Chirac Jacques René Chirac (, , ; 29 November 193226 September 2019) was a French politician who served as President of France from 1995 to 2007. Chirac was previously Prime Minister of France from 1974 to 1976 and from 1986 to 1988, as well as Ma ...

. He was a co-founder of the

Rally for the Republic The Rally for the Republic (french: Rassemblement pour la République ; RPR ), was a Gaullist and conservative political party in France. Originating from the Union of Democrats for the Republic (UDR), it was founded by Jacques Chirac in 1976 a ...

and the

Union for a Popular Movement The Union for a Popular Movement (french: link=no, Union pour un mouvement populaire, ; UMP, ) was a centre-right political party in France that was one of the two major contemporary political parties in France along with the centre-left Social ...

, two center-right political parties in France.

Early life

Jérôme Monod was born on September 7, 1930. He graduated from

Sciences Po , motto_lang = fr , mottoeng = Roots of the Future , type = Public university, Public research university''Grande école'' , established = , founder = Émile Boutmy , a ...

and the

École nationale d'administration The École nationale d'administration (generally referred to as ENA, en, National School of Administration) was a French ''grande école'', created in 1945 by President of France, President Charles de Gaulle and principal author of the Constitu ...

Career

Monod started his career as a political advisor to Prime Minister

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in 1959. He later served as an advisor to ministers

Olivier Guichard Olivier Guichard (; 27 July 1920 – 20 January 2004) was a French politician. He was born in Néac and joined the French Army in 1944 and served until the end of World War II, during which, he earned the Médaille militaire and the Croix de ...

and

Maurice Schumann Maurice Schumann (; 10 April 1911 – 9 February 1998) was a French politician, journalist, writer, and hero of the Second World War who served as Minister of Foreign Affairs under Georges Pompidou from 22 June 1969 to 15 March 1973. Schumann w ...

. He served as the chairman of the Interministerial Delegation of Land Planning and Regional Attractiveness from 1968 to 1975. He served as an advisor to Prime Minister

in 1975. With Chirac and others, he was a co-founder of the

, a center-right political party, in 1976. Monod joined Lyonnaise des eaux in 1979, and he became its chief executive in 1980. In the 1980s, he diversified the company portfolio by acquiring Sita, Degrémont, Pompes funèbres générales and BTP Dumez. He merged it with

Suez Suez ( ar, السويس '; ) is a seaport city (population of about 750,000 ) in north-eastern Egypt, located on the north coast of the Gulf of Suez (a branch of the Red Sea), near the southern terminus of the Suez Canal, having the same boun ...

in 1997. He served as the chairman of Suez-Lyonnaise until 2000. Monod served as an advisor to President Jacques Chirac from 2002 to 2007. He was a co-founder of the

in 2002. He served as the honorary chairman of the Fondation pour l'innovation politique, a center-right think tank.

Personal life and death

Monod married Françoise Gallot, the granddaughter of

Henri Queuille Henri Queuille (; 31 March 1884 – 15 June 1970) was a French Radical politician prominent in the Third and Fourth Republics. After World War II, he served three times as Prime Minister. Governments First ministry (11 September 1948 – 28 O ...

. They had three children. He died on August 18, 2016 in Lourmarin, Vaucluse, France. He was 85 years old. He was buried in Lourmarin, where a private funeral was held on August 21, 2016. A public funeral was held at the

L'Oratoire du Louvre The Temple protestant de l'Oratoire du Louvre, also Église réformée de l'Oratoire du Louvre, is a historic Protestant church located at 145 rue Saint-Honoré – 160 rue de Rivoli in the 1st arrondissement of Paris, across the street from the Lo ...

in Paris.

References

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