Biography of the Minister of State for Europe - M. Jean-Pierre Jouyet
Born on 13 February 1954 in Montreuil-sous-Bois (Seine-Saint-Denis)
Education
Graduate of the Ecole nationale d’administration (ENA) (“Voltaire” Year)
Career
Head of the Service de l’Inspection générale des finances [audit department of French public services] since 2005
Lecturer at ENA in 1982 and since 2006
Lecturer (1996-1997) then Visiting Professor (since 2006) at the Paris Institut d’études politiques (IEP)
Member of the Board of Directors, France Telecom (2002-2004 and since 2006), and of the board of the Fondation nationale des sciences politiques since 2006
President of the Paris Club (2000-2005)
Non-executive chairman of Barclays Bank France in 2005
Ambassador with responsibility for international economic issues at the French Foreign Ministry (2004-2005)
Head of the French Trésor Directorate, Ministry for the Economy, Finance and Industry (2000-2004)
Deputy Principal Private Secretary to the Prime Minister (1997-2000)
Partner in [the French business law firm] “Jeantet Associés” [Jeantet and Partners] (1995-1997)
Deputy Principal Private Secretary (1991-1994) then Principal Private Secretary (1994-1995) to the President of the European Commission
Principal Private Secretary to the Minister of Industry, Foreign Trade and Town and Country Planning (Regional Development), then to the Minister of Industry and Town and Country Planning (Regional Development) (1988-1991)
Principal at the Service de la législation fiscale [tax legislation department] at the Ministry for the Economy and Finance
Director of Studies, Paris Institut d’études politiques
Inspecteur des finances [auditor at the French Trésor, with special responsibility for the inspection of public finances] (1980)
Political offices
Honorary Chairman of the Témoin Club since 1999
Chairman of the Démocratie Club in 2000
Recently published work
N’enterrez pas la France, with Philippe Mabille, Editions Robert Laffont, 2007