Jacques Attali is an eminent economic advisor and was recently nominated by French President Nicolas Sarkozy as the head of the Commission to promote French Growth. From 1981 to 1991, he was a French presidential adviser to F. Mitterand. In 1998 Attali founded the French non-profit organization PlaNet Finance which focuses on micro finance. In April 1991 he became the first President of the London-based European Bank for Reconstruction, the financial institution established by western governments to assist the countries of eastern and central Europe and the former Soviet Union in their transition to democratic market economies. Recently, he also served as Conseiller d'Etat in Paris and has advised the United Nations Secretary-General on nuclear proliferation.

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