Edmond Alphandéry

Edmond Alphandéry
French Minister of the Economy
In office 1993–1995
President	François Mitterrand
Prime Minister	Édouard Balladur
Preceded by	Michel Sapin
Succeeded by	Alain Madelin
Personal details
Born	(1943-09-02) 2 September 1943 Avignon, France
Political party	UDF
Alma mater	Sciences Po

Edmond Alphandéry (born 2 September 1943 in Avignon, Vaucluse) is a French politician.

Education and early employment

• Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris – Fulbright Fellowship (1967–1968)
• University of Chicago – Associate of Political Economy/Doctorate in Economics
• Professor of Economics at Panthéon-Assas University

Training, employment and political career

• Deputy UDF for Maine-et-Loire from 1978 to 1993
• General Council Member for the District of Longué-Jumelles (Maine-et-Loire) from 1976 to March 2008.
• President of the General Council of Maine-et-Loire (1994–1995)
• Mayor of Longué-Jumelles from 1977 to March 2008.
• Minister of Economy from 1993 to 1995 under Prime Minister Édouard Balladur.

Minister of Economy

• He was Minister of Economy from 1993 to 1995 during the government of Édouard Balladur. Some of his most notable actions as Minister are:
• Act of 19 July 1993: privatization program (Credit Local de France, Rhone-Poulenc, Banque Nationale de Paris, Elf-Aquitaine, Union des Assurances de Paris, Seita)
• Increased state participation in the capital of Renault
• Restructuring of public enterprises in financial review (Air France, Credit Lyonnais). He said that the mounting rescue Credit Lyonnais would be "painless for the taxpayers," while according to an estimate of the Court of Auditors in 1999, the loss would be 14.8 billion euros
• Change in the status of the Banque de France (Act of 4 August 1993)
• Stimulating household consumption (premium States for the purchase of new motor vehicles)
• Entering into final negotiations of the Uruguay Round
• Convincing member states of the franc zone to accept a substantial devaluation of the CFA franc
• Publication of the Consumer Code.

Later positions

• President of Électricité de France (EDF Energy) from 1995 to 1998
• Director of the think-tank Friends of Europe
• Member of the Trilateral Commission
• Chairman of the Board of Directors of CNP Assurances and CNP International.
• Chairman of the Centre des Professions Financières
• Director of Engie, Calyon, Icade of Caixa Seguros (Brazil), CNP Capitalia Vita (Italy), the media company Parisian Posters of * GT Finance
• Member of the European Advisory Board to Nomura Securities
• President of Centre for European Policy Studies