Laurent Kretz

Jacques Attali wears many hats (bio in french):
- professor in top French political and engineering schools,
- economical, political and novel writer (over 40 books in 20 languages),
- co-founder of Action Against Hunger (1980), a non-for-profit organization dedicated to saving the lives of malnourished children,
- launched the EUREKA (1984) pan-European research program on new technologies, to which we owe the Mp3 format and the HDTV standard,
- political State adviser and honoris adviser of President François Mitterrand from 1981 to 1991,
- founder of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (1991), an investment bank that helps build market economies and democracies in countries from central Europe to central Asia,
- founder of Planet Finance (1997), an NGO that aims to alleviate poverty worldwide through the development of microfinance,
- advised the Secretary General of the United Nations on nuclear proliferation,
- motivated the reform for harmonization of European graduate and post-graduate studies.

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This morning, we were discussing politics during coffee - and I guess this will be my daily bread for the next 8 months.

I understand what the primaries and caucuses are, and I was wondering what the result would be. Well the discussion goes on and on and on, and I am horrified to discover that I know more than the people around me - and i don’t know much !

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