Jacques Attali was born on the 1st of November 1943. Graduate from the Ecole Polytechnique and the Ecole Nationale d’Administration, he was the Special Adviser to French President François Mitterrand during 10 years. He founded 5 International Institutions : Action contre la faim, Eureka, EBDR, Microcred and Positive Planet. Positive Planet is the most important worldwide Institution of support to entrepreneurship and microfinance to develop the economic autonomy of the most vulnerable populations. Positive Planet has supported more than 11 million families.
Jacques Attali has written more than 1000 op-eds in the french magazine l’Express as well as 79 books sold in 7 million copies and translated in to 22 languages. He conducts several orchestras over the world (Paris, Grenoble, London, Jerusalem, Shanghai, Astana and Montreal).