Serge Adda (19 September 1948 in

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– 6 November 2004 in

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) was the president of the French television station TV5.

Life

Adda was born in 1948 to a Tunisian-Jewish family, the son of Gladys Adda and Georges Adda. His parents were both active Tunisian

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and his father was jailed in the 1950s. Serge became a Franco-Tunisian and an expert in political economy, Adda began his vocational career in 1971 as a researcher at CETEM ''(Centre d'étude des techniques économiques moderne)''. From 1975 to 1978, he was a director of research at

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. In April 2001, he became an adviser to the president of the

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Horizons group. Adda was the president of TV5 from 23 October 2001 to his death. TV5 is, after

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, and

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, the fourth-largest European broadcaster. Adda emphasized a range of popular television programs. From 1974 to 1981, he lectured at the

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, and from 1982 to 1989, he was an advisor to

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and the

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. Married with two children, he died of

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References

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