Olivier Ferrand
| Olivier Ferrand | |
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| Born |
8 November 1969 Marseille, France |
| Died | 30 June 2012 (aged 42) Velaux, France |
| Resting place | Montmartre Cemetery |
| Nationality | French |
| Alma mater | HEC Paris, ENA |
| Occupation | civil servant, member of the French Parliament (2012) |
| Political party | Socialist Party |
Olivier Ferrand was a French civil servant and public intellectual. He was the founder of Terra Nova, a prominent centre-left think tank in Paris. In June 2012 he was elected to the French Parliament. He died of a heart attack shortly afterwards, aged 42.
Ferrand was born in 1969 in Marseille and later studied at HEC Paris, Sciences Po, and École nationale d'administration. After ENA he joined the French Finance Ministry as a civil servant in the Treasury Directorate. In the early 2000s he was an adviser to Prime Minister Lionel Jospin. He then became an adviser to Pierre Moscovici as a member of the Convention on the Future of Europe and later to Dominique Strauss-Kahn as a leading figure of the French opposition. He also joined the Inspection des Finances during the 2000s.
He created Terra Nova in 2008 and led it until his death. Terra Nova quickly emerged as a major voice in French policy debates, unambiguously on the centre-left but independent from the Socialist Party. Among its key contributions, spearheaded by Ferrand from 2008, was the recommendation of a system of open primaries to designate the Socialist Party's candidate to the next presidential election. The Socialist Party's adoption of this proposal led to the primary vote of October 2011, which was won by François Hollande.
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