Xavier Musca

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Xavier Musca (born February 23, 1960 in Bastia , Haute-Corse department in Corsica ) is a French ministerial official and economic expert , most recently Secretary General ( secrétaire général ), i.e. the highest-ranking official of the Élysée Palace , the authority of the French President . He is chairman of the supervisory board of the largest asset management company in Europe, Amundi SA with 1.5 trillion euros in client money.

Origin and education

Musca is the son of an officer from the former PTT (State Post). He grew up in Vico , a village near the west coast of the island, where he met Marie-Dominique Culioli , who later became the first wife of former President Nicolas Sarkozy . Musca first studied at Sciences Po , an elite university , where Nicolas Sarkozy was his fellow student. He then attended the ENA administration college . There he passed his final exam in 1985.

Career

In 1989 he came to the Ministry of Finance . In 1990 he negotiated the Maastricht Treaty under Jean-Claude Trichet . From 1993 he was an advisor to Prime Minister Édouard Balladur . In 2002 he became head of cabinet of the new finance minister Francis Mer , in 2004 he became director general in the finance ministry for the trésor department . There he was President of the Paris Club , negotiated within the framework of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank .

In 2009 Musca became Deputy Secretary General in the Presidential Office under Claude Guéant . On February 27, 2011 he followed suit. With the end of Nicolas Sarkozy's tenure , Musca resigned from his position on May 15, 2012. His position in the Elysée Palace roughly corresponded to the head of the Federal Chancellery in Germany. Pierre-René Lemas was nominated as his successor .

Musca became Deputy General Manager of Crédit Agricole .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Portrait on politique.net from March 31, 2009 (French) , accessed on September 15, 2011
  2. ↑ Holger Alich: Sarkozy's possible trump card in ECB poker. , Handelsblatt dated June 24, 2010 , accessed on September 15, 2011
  3. ↑ Organization chart of the French Ministry of Finance ( Memento of August 28, 2011 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on September 14, 2011
  4. ↑ Personal details on the Crédit Agricole website ( memento of November 6, 2013 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on January 17, 2014
personal data
SURNAME Musca, Xavier
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French ministerial official
DATE OF BIRTH February 23, 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH Bastia