Martin Hirsch par Claude Truong-Ngoc avril 2013

Martin Hirsch (born 6 December 1963 in

Suresnes Suresnes () is a commune in the western suburbs of Paris, Île-de-France. Located in Hauts-de-Seine, from the centre of Paris, it had a population of 49,145 as of 2016. The nearest communes are Nanterre, Puteaux, Rueil-Malmaison, Saint-Cloud a ...

) is a French civil servant who was the former head of Emmaüs France, the former High Commissioner for Active Solidarity against Poverty, and the High Commissioner for Youth in the government of

François Fillon François Charles Armand Fillon (; born 4 March 1954) is a retired French politician who served as Prime Minister of France from 2007 to 2012 under President Nicolas Sarkozy. He was the nominee of the Republicans (previously known as the Union ...

. Hirsch was in charge of setting up the

Revenu de solidarité active The Revenu de solidarité active (RSA) is a French form of in work welfare benefit aimed at reducing the barrier to return to work. It was implemented on 1 June 2009 by the French government. RSA replaces the Revenu minimum d'insertion; its goal ...

and left the government in March 2010 to head the state's Civic Service Agency. Hirsch holds a master's degree in

Neurobiology Neuroscience is the scientific study of the nervous system (the brain, spinal cord, and peripheral nervous system), its functions and disorders. It is a multidisciplinary science that combines physiology, anatomy, molecular biology, developme ...

and is an alumnus of the

École Normale Supérieure 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, S ...

and of 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 Charles de Gaulle and principal author of the 1958 Constitution Michel Deb ...

. He is married to

Florence Noiville Florence Noiville (), a French author and journalist, is a long time staff writer for ''Le Monde'' and editor of foreign fiction for ''Le Monde des Livres'', the literary supplement of Le Monde. Life After attending Sciences Po, the internati ...

.Martin Hirsch biographic notice
on OECD's website

Bibliography

*''Les Enjeux de la protection sociale'' (1993) *''L'Affolante Histoire de la vache folle'' (en coll., 1996) *''Ces Peurs qui nous gouvernent'' (2002) *''Manifeste contre la pauvreté'' (2004) *''La Pauvreté en héritage: deux millions d'enfants pauvres en France'' (2006) *''L'abbé Pierre : « Mes amis, au secours ! »'', coll. " Découvertes Gallimard" (n° 583) (2012)

References

External links

Blog of Martin Hirsh
on the

Nouvel Observateur (), previously known as (1964–2014), is a weekly French news magazine. Based in the 2nd arrondissement of Paris, it is the most prominent French general information magazine in terms of audience and circulation. Its current editor is Cécil ...

website (in French). French civil servants École Normale Supérieure alumni École nationale d'administration alumni 1963 births Living people French people of German-Jewish descent {{france-bio-stub