It is an application of the teachings of StTake two mobile in hand and compare imagesBut these days it seems to me difficultAll disciplines foreigners account for 3 Pressure from the markets could not relaxEvolution of the spiritsRadical change of sceneryExisting housing sales thus increased by 08 billion bushels the course had fallen 3In France photovoltaics is fire all woodWe employ directly more than 2000 people in China"In 1997, I was President of the Club of Paris, in 1999 Vice-President of the EIB and today simple General Manager of the Caisse des Dépôts", had a day joked Francis Mayer. The formula reflects as much the sometimes deadpan humour of the Director General of the CDC as its satisfaction to have climbed all levels which can dream a senior official at the age of fifty-six.
The Director General of the Caisse des Dépôts was the son of farmer. Born in the village of Ettendorf, in the Bas-Rhin, he is spotted by a teacher who helps him to win a scholarship to study in Strasbourg. Ignoring to the existence of 'Normal Sub' a school that he always regretted not attempted he unhooks the aggregation of German in twenty-two years. Already support family his father died a few days earlier he taught three years before crossing new milestone: it integrates the ENA on external competition (promotion Michel of the Hospital).
A certain impatience
Just then the years in the direction of the Treasury, where it is first head of the Office of the financial market (1988), then Deputy Director of the savings and the financial market (1991). In 1994, he became Assistant Director to Christian Noyer while governing the service of European and international affairs.
The number two is the economy of the box "Director of the Treasury". In October 1997, he took the Chair of the Paris Club, which brings together the major creditors of the world to discuss the rescheduling of the debt of the countries in difficulty. Two years later, it accesses the Vice-Presidency of the European Investment Bank (EIB), that he will leave that to take the head of the CDC.
His arrival, end of 2002, the head of the venerable institution of the Rue de Lille, then coveted by many suitors, including left despite alternating right, for the first time in twenty years, hand to select the Director General had a lot of teeth grind. In appearance, the man has the stiffness and ways to a great clerk of the State but he seduces by its outspoken and pragmatism. Him who taught English to elementary school his mother tongue was German dialect had kept his childhood an inordinate liking for German culture. Amateur music and literature, this father of three children also loved treat its form. Follower of cross at the French stage, it joggait from time to time in the wood at Saint-Cloud.
His hyperactivity, accompanied by a certain impatience, irritated some and fascinated others. "Francis likes to find solutions." "And soon", was Edmond Alphandéry, Chairman of the Supervisory Board of CNP Assurances and, like him, former Treasury. The man is also stubborn. It is said that he does not hesitate to spend up to 60 lashes wire in one day to succeed.
Centrist beliefs
Close to Jacques Chirac, Francis Mayer ranked to the center-right on the political chessboard. But centrist beliefs that close to Christian Democrats such as Pierre Méhaignerie, Jacques Barrot and Jean Arthuis, does not precluded from having chemistry with Dominique Strauss-Kahn.
"This is a man of high fidelity", said of him Jean-Marc Espalioux, the former President of the Executive Board of Accor. Too pragmatic for locking in cleavage or to be paste a label, he had not hesitated to choose as his right arm Dominique Marcel, the former Director of Office of Martine Aubry.
No doubt a way to assert the independence of the Republican institution that he directed against the power policy ostensibly taking its distance from Bercy. "For a senior civil servant, it demonstrates a remarkable speech freedom," said Pierre Richard, President of the Board of Directors of Dexia.
Cunning but not well, Francis Mayer was also a formidable negotiator, which had notably known resume dialogue with the squirrel son while he campaigned quietly to CDC Ixis, the wholesale Bank then back to the Fund. Or on the Accor folder in the redemption of the shares of the Fund of deposits and the Agnelli in Club Med group. It even loaned him the purpose of taking the head of the Group of hotels. Just as had told him to take that of Caisses d'Epargne. It is in is always prohibited. With a malicious smile in said long.
