Jean-Pierre Jouyet
| Jean-Pierre Jouyet | |
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| Chief of Staff of President of France | |
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Assumed office 16 April 2014 |
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| President | François Hollande |
| Preceded by | Pierre-René Lemas |
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13 February 1954 Montreuil, Seine-Saint-Denis, France |
| Nationality |
 France
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| Alma mater | Sciences Po, ÉNA |
Jean-Pierre Jouyet (born 13 February 1954) is a French politician.
Jean-Pierre Jouyet, was born on 13 February 1954 at Montreuil-sous-Bois in the suburbs of Paris, and is a top civil servant who has also held political positions.
His current position is secrétaire général Cabinet du président de la République française of French President Hollande since April 16, 2014. Before that he was president of the Banque publique d'investissement (BPI) and general director of the Caisse des dépôts et consignations from 2012 to 2014, and Chairman of the French securities regulator, the Autorité des Marchés Financiers (AMF), since 15 November 2008; immediately prior to which he was Minister of State, attached to the Minister of Foreign and European Affairs, responsible for European Affairs in the François Fillon government from May 2007.
Having graduated from the Paris Institute of Political Studies (IEP), he then went on to study at France's most famous post graduate school, the Ecole Nationale d'Administration (ENA) in the class of 1980 known as the "Voltaire Year".
After which, in accordance with the strict system of selection reserved for honours graduates of ENA in the French Administration he was to immediately be eligible for and become a member of the elite group of Inspecteurs des finances (auditor at the Ministry for the Economy and Finance, with special responsibility for the inspection of public finances), before taking a succession of senior posts such as Principal at the Service de la legislation fiscale (tax legislation department), and Principal Private Secretary of the Minister of Industry, Foreign Trade and Town and Country Planning until 1991 when he was called to serve (initially as Deputy and then Head of Cabinet of the President of the European Commission, Jacques Delors, President of the European Commission until 1995.
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