Geburtsdatum | Donnerstag, 25. Mai 1939 |
Geburtsort | Pau |
Todesdatum | Mittwoch, 01. November 2023 |
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Beschreibung | Francis Mer (born 25 May 1939, in Pau) is a French businessman, industrialist and politician. A former alumnus of the École Polytechnique, and of the École des Mines de Paris, he is a member of the Corps des mines. He was hired in 1970 by the Saint-Gobain group. In 1982, he became chairman of the board of . In the 1980s, he joined the Saint-Simon Foundation think-tank. Since 2005, he sits on the board of directors of Vale Inco, which benefited from an important tax rebate to exploit a nickel mine in New Caledonia while he was finance minister. |