Jean-Pierre
JOUYET
Senior Advisor
Following his graduation from the French National School of Administration (ENA) in 1980, Jean-Pierre Jouyet was named financial inspector (“inspecteur des finances”). Between 1988 and 1991, he was Roger Fauroux’s Chief of Staff, who was Minister of Industry, Foreign Trade and Town and Country Planning and then Minister of Industry and Town and Country Planning. From 1991 to 1995, he was named Chief of Staff and subsequently appointed Principal Secretary to the cabinet of Jacques Delors, President of the European Commission, before his nomination in 1997 as Deputy Director of Prime Minister Lionel Jospin’s Office (1997-2000).
Head of the French Treasury between 2000 and 2004, he was appointed Ambassador for International Economic Affairs at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 2005, then became Head of the Inspectorate General of Finances (“Service de l’Inspection générale des finances”) in the Ministry of the Economy, Finance, and Industry.
In 2007, he was appointed Secretary of State for European Affairs in the government of François Fillon. Between 2008 and 2012, he was Chairman at the French Financial Market Regulator (“Autorité des Marchés Financiers”). He became Chief Executive Officer of the Deposits and Consignments Fund (“Caisse des Dépôts et Consignations”) and held the position of Chairman of the French Public Investment Bank (“Bpifrance”) between 2012 and 2014.
From 2014 to 2017, he was Secretary-General of the Presidency of the Republic during François Hollande’s mandate. In 2017, he was appointed Ambassador of France to the United Kingdom (until 2019), then he was named Permanent Representative of France to the OECD up until 2020.
He is also Honorary Chairman of the Aspen Institute.
Born in 1954, he holds a diploma in public law, and he graduated from the Institute of Political Studies in Paris (“Institut d’Etudes Politiques”). He is also an alumnus of the National School of Administration (“Voltaire” promotion).