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Valéry GISCARD D'ESTAING
Ex officio Member in his capacity as Former President of the Republic
Member since 1981
Born 2 February 1926, in Koblenz (Germany)
Education
- Former student of the École polytechnique
- Student at the Ecole nationale d'administration (1949-1951)
Career
- 1952 : Junior official at the Finance Inspectorate, Ministry of Finance
- 1954 : Inspector of Finance
- 1954, June-December 1954 : Deputy Director of the Cabinet of Edgar Faure, President of the Council (Prime Minister)
- 1956 / 1959 : MP for the Puy-de-Dôme department
- 1956 / 1957 : Member of the French delegation to the 11th session of the United Nations General Assembly
- 1958 / 1974 : General Councillor of the canton of Rochefort-Montagne
- 1959 : Minister of State at the Ministry of Finance
- 1962 : Minister of Finance
- 1962 : Minister of Finance and Economic Affairs
- 1962 November-December : MP for the Puy-de-Dôme department
- 1962 / 1966 : Minister, then Minister of State of Finance and Economic Affairs
- 1966 / 1967 : Rejoins the Finance Inspectorate
- 1966 : President of the national federation of the "Républicains Indépendents"
- 1967 / 1969 : MP for the Puy-de-Dôme department
- 1967 / 1968 : Chairman of the committee on finance, general economy and the plan of the National Assembly
- 1970 : President of the board of the OECD
- 1969 / 1974 : Minister of Finance and the Economy
- 1974, 19 May / 1981, 19 May : President of the Republic
- 1974 / 1977 : Municipal Councillor of Chamalières
- Since 1981 : Ex officio member of the Constitutional Council
Honours
- Grand Cross of the Legion of Honour
- Grand Cross of the National Order of Merit
- Croix de guerre 39-45 / Military Cross 39-45
- Bailiff Grand Cross of Honour and Devotion of the Sovereign Order of Malta
- Honorary Canon of Saint-Jean-de-Latran (1978)
- Nansen Medal
- Onassis Foundation Prize (Athens, 2000)
- Trombinoscope prize for the political personality of the year 2000
- Gold Medal of the Jean Monnet Foundation for Europe awarded in Lausanne, Switzerland (2001)
- Charlemagne Prize for his works in support of Europe (2002)
- De Gaulle-Adenauer Prize (2006)
Publications
General works
- Economie et société humaine : rencontres internationales du Ministère de l'Economie et des Finances, 20-22 juin 1972, (coll. avec STOLERU Lionel et ARON Robert), Paris, Denoël, 1972
- Démocratie Française, Paris, Fayard, 1976
- Une Nouvelle Croissance pour la France, recueil de textes, 1977
- "Pour un environnement à la française, recueil de textes et de déclarations", Paris, La Documentation française, 1977
- L'Etat de la France, Paris, Fayard, 1981
- Deux Français sur Trois, Paris, Flammarion, 1984
- Le Pouvoir et la Vie, Tome I "La Rencontre", Paris, Cie 12, 1988
- Le Pouvoir et la Vie, Tome II "L'Affrontement", Paris, Cie 12, 1991
- Le Passage, Paris, Robert Laffont, 1994
- Dans 5 ans l'an 2000 : les enjeux de l'élection présidentielle, Paris, Cie 12, 1995
- Les Français, Réflexions sur le destin d'un peuple, Paris, Plon, 2000
- Giscard d'Estaing - Entretien avec Agathe Fourgnaud, Paris, Flammarion
- Le Pouvoir et la Vie, Tome III "Choisir", Paris, Cie 12, 2006
Publications concerning the Constitutional Council and Constitutional Law
- La Constitution pour l'Europe, Fondation Robert Schuman, Albin Michel, 2003