Jean-Pierre Jouyet
Jean-Pierre Jouyet (born 13
February 1954) is a French
politician and chairman of the Autorité des
marchés financiers of France.
Biography
After
having graduated from the Paris Institute
of Political Studies
, and later from the École Nationale
d'Administration
(ENA), he worked nearly two decades for the French
government. He worked as an official for the French Ministry
of Economy and Finance (1980), was engaged in the simplification of
the French tax system (1983), and held government posts until
1991.
From 1991
to 1995, Jean-Pierre Jouyet took part in the work of the European Union, in his last year of that
period in the role of chief of staff to Jacques Delors, president of the European
Commission
.
After working as deputy chief of staff to Prime Minister
Lionel Jospin from 1997 to 2000, and a
four-year spell as head of the French Treasury, he became the
president of the
Paris Club.
In the wake of
Paul Wolfowitz's
nomination to head the
World Bank,
European governments were concerned about that bank's possible
shift to the current American administration's policy of
Transformational Diplomacy.
Jean-Pierre Jouyet was mentioned as possibly becoming deputy to the
president at the World Bank.
In May 2007, Jean-Pierre Jouyet was appointed Secretary of State in
charge of European Affairs in the
François Fillon government. He left the
government in December 2008 and was immediately appointed as
chairman of
Autorité des marchés
financiers of France.
References
- Arrival of Jean-Pierre Jouyet as AMF Chairman
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