Louis Schweitzer

Louis Schweitzer is a French business man born the July 8th 1942.

Origin

Born in Geneva, in 1942, in a family of the Alsatian Protestant middle-class, he is the son of Pierre-Paul Schweitzer, director of the the IMF, great nephew of Albert Schweitzer and the leader Charles Münch, and cousin of Jean-Paul Sartre.

Career

At the exit of ENA, he becomes tax inspector and between direction of the Treasury.

In 1981, he becomes principal private secretary of Laurent Fabius, the Minister for the Budget of the Gouvernement Pierre Mauroy. It will then follow it to the Ministry for Industry, then in Matignon.

After the failure of the left in 1986, it enters, thanks to Georges Besse with Renault, as director of control of management. Finance manager, then managing director, it becomes chairman and managing director of the automobile group between 1992 and 2005. On this date, it leaves the direction of Renault, but becomes about it the chairman of the board (expiration date: 2009).

It also occupies of many functions on the economic scene:

Chairman of the board: AstraZeneca;
Administrator: AB Volvo, BNP Paribas, EDF, L'Oreal, Veolia Environnement;
Member of the Board of trustees: Philips;
Member of the Advisory counsel: Allianz, Banque de France;
Honorary president: MEDEF International.

Louis Schweitzer is very implied on the cultural and social scene French:

President of the High authority of fight against discriminations and for the equality (DUMP);
President of the Festival of Avignon in 2005;
President of the Company of the Friends of the Museum of the quay Branly.

Member of the Council of establishments or associations of general interest:

national Foundation of political sciences;
Museum of Louvre;
Museum of the quay Branly.

He is member of the Board of directors of IFRI.

He is member of the club the Century.

Distinctions

Large-Officer of the National order of the Merit (2007)
Commander of the Legion of honor

Anecdote

He is prize winner of the Prix of the English rug of 1999, to have imposed the use of Anglo-American in the minutes of the meetings of direction of his company.

Works

'' My '' '' Années Renault. Between Billancourt and the worldwide market ''. Gallimard/the Debate, 2006.

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