Francis Mer

Francis Mer

Chairman at Foundation Condorcet

84 year
Commercial Services
Non-Energy Minerals
Producer Manufacturing

Profile

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 Pont-à-Mousson SA. In the 1980s, he joined the Saint-Simon Foundation think-tank.

Following the 1986 legislative elections and the nomination of the conservative Jacques Chirac as Prime Minister, he was nominated as president of the new Usinor group. He was reelected to his position in 1995, upon the group's privatization, and renamed the group Arcelor in 2002. From 2002 to 2004, he was Minister of Finances in Jean-Pierre Raffarin's conservative government.

Since 2005, he seats 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 Minister of Finances.

In June 2009, he became chairman of the board of Safran.

In April 2011, due to the change of structure of Safran, Jean-Paul Herteman became CEO and Francis Mer became Vice Chairman.



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Francis Mer active positions

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Director/Board Member 2010-05-19
Foundation Condorcet Chairman -
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Former positions of Francis Mer

CompaniesPositionEnd
Chairman 2006-12-31
ALSTOM Director/Board Member 2005-12-31
Chairman 2001-12-31
Ugine SA Chairman 2001-12-31
Chairman 1997-12-31
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Training of Francis Mer

Ecole Polytechnique Graduate Degree
École Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Paris Graduate Degree

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Linked companies

Listed companies6
ADECCO GROUP AG

Commercial Services

ALSTOM

Producer Manufacturing

SAINT-GOBAIN

Producer Manufacturing

ARCELORMITTAL

Non-Energy Minerals

SAFRAN

Electronic Technology

VIOHALCO S.A.

Non-Energy Minerals

Private companies14

Process Industries

Producer Manufacturing

Non-Energy Minerals

Ugine SA

Non-Energy Minerals

Health Technology

Commercial Services

Commercial Services

Commercial Services

Commercial Services

Usinor Sacilor SA

Entreprises pour l'Environnement

Foundation Condorcet

National Technical Research Association

Fédération Française de l'Acier

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