Jean-Pierre Jouyet


Jean-Pierre Jouyet is a French civil servant who served as Minister of State, attached to the Minister of Foreign and European Affairs, responsible for European Affairs in the government of Prime Minister François Fillon from 2007 to 2008. He is considered a close friend of former President François Hollande.
His last political position is secrétaire général of French President Hollande. Before that he was president of the Banque publique d'investissement and general director of the Caisse des dépôts et consignations from 2012 to 2014, and Chairman of the French securities regulator, the Autorité des Marchés Financiers, since 15 November 2008. He was the ambassador of France to the United Kingdom between 2017 and 2019.

Early life and education

Jouyet was born on 13 February 1954 in Montreuil-sous-Bois in the suburbs of Paris.
After graduating from Sciences Po, Jouyet went on to study at the École nationale d'administration in the class of 1980 known as the "Promotion Voltaire".

Career

After which, in accordance with the strict system of selection reserved for honours graduates of ENA in the French Administration he was to immediately be eligible for and become a member of the elite group of Inspecteurs des finances, before taking a succession of senior posts such as Principal at the Service de la legislation fiscale, and Principal Private Secretary of the Minister of Industry, Foreign Trade and Town and Country Planning until 1991.
From 1991 to 1995, Jouyet worked – initially as Deputy and then Head of Cabinet – for President of the European Commission Jacques Delors.
From 1995 until 1997, Jouyet was a partner in Jeantet & Co, a French business law firm, which he left at the request of the Prime Minister Lionel Jospin to become his Deputy Principal Private Secretary until 2000, during which he contributed to France's entry into the Eurozone.
Jouyet was then to become Head of the French Trésor Directorate from 2000 until 2004. During his tenure at Trésor, he also served as president of the Paris Club.
In 2004, Minister of Finance Nicolas Sarkozy appointed Jouyet as France's Ambassador for international economic affairs.
Briefly non-executive chairman of Barclays Bank France in 2005, he was then designated Head of the Inspection générale des finances within the Ministry of Finance until 2007, before subsequently being appointed Minister of State responsible for European Affairs in François Fillon's government. His mission was to make the necessary preparations for France's Presidency of the council of the European Union in the second half of 2008.
Ahead of the 2007 presidential election, Jouyet was one of the initiators and signatories of the petition which was to become known as "l'appel des Gracques" seeking an alliance between France's Socialist Party and the center-right Union for French Democracy.
At the conclusion of this assignment, Jouyet was then nominated by President Sarkozy on 14 November 2008 to become Chairman of the French securities regulator, the AMF, to replace Michel Prada, at the end of his non-renewable 5-year mandate, on 15 December 2008.
Honorary President of the Club Témoin since 1999, and president of the Club Démocratie in 2000.
Director of Studies at IEP from 1981 to 1988, he was to be a lecturer in 1996 and 1997, before becoming Associate Lecturer in 2006.
He was master of Lectures at ENA in 1982, 2006 and 2007. He currently chairs a commission which is reviewing the system under which graduates are attributed posts within the French administration at the conclusion of their studies at the ENA.

Other activities

Corporate boards

Non-profit organizations

Personal life

Jouyet has been married to his second wife Brigitte Taittinger since 2006. Taittinger is one of the grand daughters of Pierre Taittinger, who founded the celebrated firm of champagne which bears his name, and serves as the chair and CEO of Annick Goutal Perfumes.
In 2012, one of Jouyet’s sons died.