Érik Izraelewicz

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Érik Izraelewicz (2009)

Érik Izraelewicz (born February 6, 1954 in Strasbourg , † November 27, 2012 in Paris ) was a French business journalist and director of the daily Le Monde .

Life

Érik Izraelewicz was the son of a doctor and grew up in Haguenau and Strasbourg. He graduated from the École des hautes études commerciales de Paris (HEC) in Jouy-en-Josas . He then attended the "Center de formation des journalistes (CFJ)" and received his doctorate in 1979 at the Sorbonne in Paris with the thesis La Division Internationale socialiste du travail à l'intérieur du bloc CAEM ( RGW ) .

Izraelewicz started as a business journalist for the newspaper L'Usine nouvelle and joined L'Expansion in 1981 . He then headed the La Tribune de l'économie, which he co-founded in 1985 . In 1986 he started working for the daily newspaper Le Monde , where he a. a. Was Head of Economic Affairs and New York Correspondent and became a member of the Editor-in-Chief in November 1996. In 2000 he moved to Les Échos , after which he returned to La Tribune in 2008 . In the meantime, he also worked as a television journalist in a business magazine program for the station Europe 1 .

In February 2011, Izraelewicz became director of Le Monde, which was under severe economic pressure .

Izraelewicz published books on the world economy. Most recently he published his book L'Arrogance chinoise in 2010 .

He was a member of various government advisory commissions and since 2001 on the advisory board of the École nationale d'administration (ENA).

He went weak in the editorial office and died surprisingly shortly afterwards in a hospital. Media reports suspect a heart attack as the cause of death.

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  1. ^ "Le Monde" editor-in-chief Erik Izraelewicz is dead , FAZ-net, November 28, 2012
  2. ^ Director of the newspaper "Le Monde" Erik Izraelewicz is dead , Der Spiegel , November 28, 2012
  3. www.sueddeutsche.de