Jacques Attali

Author and Chairman, Attali & Associés, France

Professor, writer, Honorary Member of the Council of State, Special Adviser to the French President from 1981 to 1991, founder and first President of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development in London from 1991 to 1993, Jacques Attali is currently Managing Partner of A&A, an international firm based in Paris. He is a columnist for the magazine L'Express. He has written fourty-three books, translated into more than twenty languages, with over six million copies sold all over the world

A&A is a consultancy specialising in strategic consulting, financial engineering and merger-acquisitions. A&A advises French and international companies in defining and implementing their growth strategies. Jacques Attali is the personal adviser of some of the top world CEOs. A&A can offer a full range of services in mergers and acquisitions from the first stages of the market study to the post-transaction period. A&A is also investing in high return potential companies, most of them in new technologies area.