Jacques Attali

Jacques Attali

Economist, writer and adviser · b. 1943

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Algiers-born economist and writer who served as special adviser to President François Mitterrand from 1981 to 1991 and as the first president of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development. He has written dozens of books on economics, history and the Jewish people.

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