1. Jean Peyrelevade was born on 24 October 1939 and is a senior French center-left politician and business leader.
17 Facts About Jean Peyrelevade
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In 1981 Peyrelevade was appointed deputy director of the cabinet and economic adviser to French Prime Minister Pierre Mauroy, and, while professing scepticism about its extent, oversaw the public sector.
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Jean Peyrelevade was previously a teacher of economics at the Ecole Polytechnique, and has written on the evolution of contemporary capitalism, particularly in his 2005 book Le capitalisme total, published by the La Republique des idees think tank.
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Jean Peyrelevade supported Francois Bayrou in the 2007 French presidential election, and joined Bayrou's campaign team with a view to influence its economic programme.
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Jean Peyrelevade was elected through the list and became a borough councilor, and on 13 June 2008 was appointed a vice president of MoDem.
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Jean Peyrelevade resigned from the board of the 16th arrondissement, and all positions within MoDem, on 6 January 2009.
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Jean Peyrelevade no longer has partisan ties but is an active participant of the left-leaning Terra Nova think tank.
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On 7 September 2011 Jean Peyrelevade supported the candidacy of Francois Hollande in the 2011 Socialist Party presidential primary.
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In 2012 Jean Peyrelevade stated that France needed a period of wage moderation to re-vitalize the economy.
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Jean Peyrelevade believes that the 35-hour working week introduced by President Lionel Jospin in 2000 was destructive of French competitiveness within the Eurozone, while "Germans were seriously putting their affairs in order".
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Jean Peyrelevade promotes re-industrialisation, innovation, increased spending on research and promotion of private enterprise.
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Jean Peyrelevade believes that French employment law keeps wages high relative to other countries, discouraging employment at a time of unemployment.
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Jean Peyrelevade sees the high cost of social protection as an economic burden, and would reduce these costs while lowering taxes on households.
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In 1985, on behalf of the French authorities, Jean Peyrelevade was responsible for negotiating agreement on the establishment of Disneyland Paris.
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Jean Peyrelevade became chairman of the French Government-controlled bank Credit Lyonnais in 1993.
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In 2006 the bank and Jean Peyrelevade were charged in the federal court of Los Angeles with two felonies concerning false statements to the Federal Reserve.
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Jean Peyrelevade is a member of the think tank Le Siecle.