Simon Nora
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| Born | 21 February 1921 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Died | 5 March 2006 (Age 85) Paris, France | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Cause of death | cancer | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nationality | French | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Alma mater | ENA | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Religion | Jewish | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Parents | • Gaston Nora • Julie Lehman | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Children | Dominique Nora | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Spouse | • Marie-Pierre de Cossé-Brissac • Leone Georges-Picot | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Member of | Le Siècle, Saint-Simon Foundation | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Relatives | Pierre Nora | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Le Siècle/President 1985-87, 1972 Bilderberg
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Simon Nora was a senior French civil servant and businessman. He has notably been a political adviser to prime ministers and presidents, director of the École nationale d'administration, President of Le Siècle and chairman of the board of directors of the bank Lehman Brothers.
He attended the 1972 Bilderberg meeting. He was also a founding member of the Club Jean Moulin and the Saint-Simon Foundation, close to U.S. interests.
Background
An Ashkenazi Jew, son of the doctor Gaston Nora and Julie Lehman[1], brother of the historian Pierre Nora, he took part in the Resistance from 1942.
He studied at the École nationale d'administration (ENA) 1946 - 1947.
He married in January 1947 to Marie-Pierre de Cossé-Brissac (daughter of Pierre de Cossé Brissac), with whom he had two children. He divorced, only to remarry, in May 1955, with Léone Georges-Picot, secretary and chief of staff of Pierre Mendès France's government[2], with whom he had three children.
Career
After the ENA, he joined the General Inspectorate of Finance in 1947 and quickly became a specialist in economic issues.
In 1952, he was Secretary General of the National Accounts Commission, at the time chaired by Pierre Mendès France.
Close to Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber and Françoise Giroud, he participated in the beginnings of L'Express in 1953. He animated the economic pages, thus contributing to the popularization of certain notions in public opinion.
Along with Servan-Schreiber, he was one of the shadow advisers in the cabinet of Pierre Mendès France during his short-lived seven-month government. He partly wrote the speeches that the President of the Council gave every Saturday on the radio – the "Saturday talks" – to explain his action to the French.
He was in charge of the cabinet of Prime Minister Jacques Chaban-Delmas from 1969 to 1972, and was with Jacques Delors the author of the famous speech on the "New Society" delivered by Chaban-Delmas in September 1969.
He was managing director of the Hachette group in 1971, he participated the following year in the launch of the weekly Le Point. He returned to government in 1974.
He was director of the National School of Administration between 1982 and 1986 , then joined the Shearson Lehman Hutton bank, which became Lehman Brothers, in 1986, where he became chairman of the supervisory board and then of the board of directors (1987-1995).[1]
According to Jean-Michel Quatrepoint, Simon Nora's revolving door marked "the kick-off in France of this strategy of influence, which some could qualify as influence peddling", allowing the business world to make its interests prevail by recruiting senior civil servants, thus benefiting from their address book.[3]
He wrote with Alain Minc a famous report on the computerization of society, published in December 1977. In this report, he invented the word and the concept of telematics and foreshadows the launch of the Minitel network, a forerunner of the Internet. It also lays down milestones as to the risks to individual freedoms (particularly private data), and how to guard against them. [4]
Event Participated in
| Event | Start | End | Location(s) | Description |
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| Bilderberg/1972 | 21 April 1972 | 23 April 1972 | Belgium Hotel La Reserve Knokke | The 21st Bilderberg, 102 guests. It spawned the Trilateral Commission. |
References
- ↑ a b Who's Who in France 2004-2005
- ↑ Nora, Pierre (2021). Jeunesse (in French), page 76.
- ↑ https://archive.wikiwix.com/cache/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.monde-diplomatique.fr%2F2016%2F11%2FQUATREPOINT%2F56762
- ↑ https://archive.wikiwix.com/cache/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ina.fr%2Fvideo%2FDVC7808137801%2Fedition-speciale-invite-simon-nora-video.html
