Jean-Baptiste Douville de Franssu

Jean-Baptiste Douville de Franssu (born July 8, 1963 ) is a French economist and has been President of the Board of Directors of the Istituto per le Opere di Religione since July 9, 2014 .

Life

The graduate of the École Supérieure de Commerce de Reims first worked in the Caisse des Dépôts and later in the European Invesco branch. From 2009 to 2011 he was chairman of the European Fund and Asset Management Association (EFAMA) and since 2012 he has been an independent advisor to Carmignac Gestion . He is also the managing director of Incipit , a strategic merger and acquisition consultancy based in Brussels.

In 2013 he was appointed to the Advisory Committee on the Economic and Administrative Structure of the Holy See (COSEA). He joined the Economic Secretariat and worked as a lay volunteer in the Council for Economic Affairs, responsible for laying the foundations for the Vatican financial reform. On the advice of Lucio Ángel Vallejo Balda , secretary and coordinator of the IOR Reform Commission, Pope Francis appointed him President of the Supervisory Board of the Istituto per le Opere di Religione on July 9, 2014.

The member of the Douville de Franssu family , one of the remaining families of the French nobility, spent much of his childhood in Africa , where his parents were missionaries. He lived in Senegal , Gabon and the Ivory Coast , then in Sudan , Somalia , Tanzania and Zambia . He is married to Hélène de Gerlache de Gomery, a nurse from the Belgian Gerlache family and a supporter of Mother Teresa's . You have four children.

He is Catholic and influenced by the spirituality of Charles de Foucauld . He is a member of the board of directors of the World Youth Alliance , an international organization whose aim is to defend the dignity of the human person in international bodies such as the United Nations and the European Parliament.

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