Michel Albert
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Michel Albert | |
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| Born | 25 February 1930 Fontenay-le-Comte, France |
| Died | 19 March 2015 (aged 85) Paris, France |
| Education | Sciences Po, ÉNA |
| Occupation | Economist |
Michel Albert (French: [albɛʁ]; 25 February 1930 – 19 March 2015) was a French economist.[1] He was born in Fontenay-le-Comte, Vendée, and was permanent secretary of the Académie des Sciences Morales et Politiques from 2005 to 2010.
Michel Albert graduated from the Institut d'Études Politiques de Paris (Sciences Po) and was also an alumnus of the École Nationale d'Administration (ENA). He became an inspector of finance in 1956.
Albert was chairman of the board and chief executive of Assurances Générales de France (AGF) between 1982 and 1994. When the Bank of France was made an independent central bank in 1994, he was one six advisers appointed by François Mitterrand, the Socialist president, to a monetary policy council.[2] From 1990 to 1993 he was also president of the International Christian Union of Business Executives (UNIAPAC).
On 28 March 1994, Albert was elected as the chair of the Académie des Sciences Morales et Politiques following the death of Henri Guitton. He became president of the academy in 2004 and permanent secretary from 2005 to 2010.
In 2009 he was decorated with the Grand Cross of the National Order of Merit by the center-right president Nicolas Sarkozy.[3]
