Politician, former Minister for Research
François d’ Aubert
François d'Aubert, a former student of HEC (66) and ENA (Thomas More promotion), holds a law degree, and is a former minister, master advisor at the Court of Auditors, and President of the Professional Advertising Regulatory Authority (ARPP).After serving as a mission officer in the cabinet of ...
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About François d’ Aubert
François d’Aubert, a former student of HEC (66) and ENA (Thomas More promotion), holds a law degree, and is a former minister, master advisor at the Court of Auditors, and President of the Professional Advertising Regulatory Authority (ARPP).
After serving as a mission officer in the cabinet of Prime Minister Raymond Barre on audiovisual issues, he was elected deputy of Mayenne (1978-2004) and mayor of Laval (1995-2008) under the UDF and then UMP labels. He is active in the Republican Party, then in Liberal Democracy, of which he becomes the Secretary General. He joined the government following Jacques Chirac’s election in 1995 as Secretary of State for the Budget, and then for Research in Alain Juppé’s government (1995-1997).
François d’Aubert was later appointed Minister Delegate for Research in Jean-Pierre Raffarin’s government (2004-2005), then ambassador for the realization of the ITER project (nuclear fusion) in France, and President of the Cité des Sciences et de l’Industrie as well as La Géode (2007-2009). Since November 2011, he has been presiding over the Professional Advertising Regulatory Authority (ARPP) as a qualified personality.
As a parliamentarian and minister, François d’Aubert has participated in numerous political debates in the media on issues related to public finances, budgetary policies, financial and banking regulation, and problems of financial corruption… particularly following his initiatives against organized crime. He has been president or rapporteur of many investigative commissions, notably the commission on the mafia’s presence in France, on the Crédit Lyonnais affair, and later the anti-counterfeiting committee. He served as General Delegate for the fight against non-cooperative jurisdictions (“tax havens”) at the Ministry of Economy and Finance from 2009 to 2011, and chairs the peer review group on information exchange of the OECD Global Forum on Taxation.
François d’Aubert continues to work on issues of innovation, technological research, research valorization, and popularization within the framework of foundations.
He is the author of L’Argent sale (Plon 1993,) on the Crédit Lyonnais affair, Main basse sur l’Europe (Plon 1995) and Coup de torchon sur Bruxelles (Plon 1999) on the abuses of European Union funding; he recently published a critical biography of Colbert: la Vertu usurpée (Perrin 2009).