Chairman of the Federation of French Overseas companies (Fedom), President of the Franco-British Council. A member of parliament from 1993 to 2017, he was spokesman for the Republican group on the Finance Committee, special rapporteur for the budget for ecology and energy, transport, agriculture, Chairman of the friendship group with Russia, Vice-Chairman of the friendship group with the United Kingdom. He was Secretary for Overseas Territories in 2007. He is an associate member of the Conseil général de l’économie, a member of the editorial boards of « Commentaire » and « Annales des Mines ». He is a general engineer in the Corps des Mines, and he graduated from the Ecole Polytechnique and the Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris.
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