Olivier Giscard d'Estaing (30 December 1927 – 13 September 2021) was

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of the Committee for a World Parliament. The brother of the late president of France,

Valéry Giscard d'Estaing Valéry René Marie Georges Giscard d'Estaing (, , ; 2 February 19262 December 2020), also known as Giscard or VGE, was a French politician who served as President of France from 1974 to 1981. After serving as Minister of Finance under prime ...

(1926–2020), he was the founding dean and director general of the

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business school and Governor of the

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. He served as a member of the

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(from 1968 to 1973), vice-chairman of the

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(from 1978 to 1992), and a member of the Conseil Économique et Social de France (from 1994 to 1999). He was also chair of the Business Association for the World Social Summit. Co-founder of the

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, Giscard d'Estaing was the author of six books and widely published in journals such as the Revue Politique Parlementaire and the

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. He frequently lectured on business policy in

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, the

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, and the

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, and taught business policy at various schools. For many years a member of the board of several international corporations and an advisor of CEOs of French industrial corporations, Giscard d'Estaing also served as

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of Estaing (

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). He was a councillor of the

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. He graduated from Harvard Business School (HBS) in 1951.HBS Alumni Bulletin, March 2022, Vol. 98, No. 1.

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1927 births 2021 deaths French politicians Deputies of the 4th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic French untitled nobility Mayors of places in Occitania (administrative region) Independent Republicans politicians Politicians from Paris Harvard Business School alumni {{int-org-stub