Matthieu Pigasse

Matthieu Pigasse

Matthieu Pigasse (born May 25, 1968 in Clichy , Hauts-de-Seine department , France ) is a French banker and businessman.

Life

Pigasse comes from a family with many links to journalism. His father, Jean-Daniel Pigasse, was a journalist for the daily newspaper La Manche libre , his uncle Jean-Paul Pigasse was the editor-in-chief of the weekly newspaper L'Express . His brother Nicolas was a co-founder of the weekly Public .

After Pigasse graduated from the Institut d'études politiques de Paris ( Sciences Po ), he attended the Paris ENA until 1994. He joined the Ministry of Economy and Finance, where he worked in the Direction du Trésor with the rank of State Secretary. In 1998 he became a technical advisor on Dominique Strauss-Kahn's staff and, one year later, he was the State Secretary responsible for questions of industry and finance in the ministry of Minister Laurent Fabius .

In 2002, Pigasse was appointed by Bruno Roger on the advice of Alain Minc to the management of the Bankhaus Lazard for France and as Vice-President for Lazard in Europe. For Lazard he worked as a mediator in various activities in the following years . For example, in the merger of the Suez company with Gaz de France to form GDF Suez , in the sale of the stake in Club Méditerranée by Accor or in 2001 in the renegotiations on Argentina's debts .

Pigasse has been the owner of the culture and politics magazine Les Inrockuptibles since 2009 . In June 2010 he took over the publishing house of the daily newspaper Le Monde with Pierre Bergé and Xavier Niel and in 2014 65 percent of the shares in Nouvel Observateur , which was given a new title, L'Obs .

Pigasse is close to the Parti socialiste and is thus a political opponent of the former French President Nicolas Sarkozy .

Publications

• with Gilles Finchelstein: Le Monde d'après: Une crise sans précédent . Plon, Paris 2009, ISBN 978-2-2592-0900-7 .
• Révolutions . Plon, Paris 2012, ISBN 978-2-2592-1722-4 .