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Thierry Breton
Breton in 2019
European Commissioner for Internal Market
Incumbent
Assumed office 1 December 2019
President
Ursula von der Leyen
Preceded by
Elżbieta Bieńkowska
Minister of the Economy, Finance and Industry
In office 25 February 2005 – 18 May 2007
Prime Minister
Dominique de Villepin
Preceded by
Hervé Gaymard
Succeeded by
Jean-Louis Borloo
Personal details
Born
(1955-01-15) 15 January 1955 (age 69) 14th arrondissement of Paris, France
Nationality
French Senegalese[1][2]
Political party
Rally for the Republic (before 2002) Union for a Popular Movement (2002–2015)
Education
Supélec Institut des hautes études de défense nationale
Thierry Breton (French pronunciation:[tjɛʁibʁətɔ̃]; born 15 January 1955) is a French business executive, politician, writer and the current Commissioner for Internal Market of the European Union. Breton was vice-chairman and CEO of Groupe Bull (1996–1997), chairman and CEO of Thomson-RCA (1997–2002) and chairman and CEO of France Télécom (2002–2005). In 2005 he entered politics serving as Minister of Economy, Finance and Industry (2005–2007) in the governments of Prime Ministers Jean-Pierre Raffarin and Dominique de Villepin, during the presidency of Jacques Chirac. From 2007 to 2008 he was a professor at Harvard Business School before joining group Atos from 2009 to 2019 as its CEO.[3]
Since 2019, Breton has been European Commissioner for Internal Market under the presidency of Ursula von der Leyen, an appointment that met with controversy, as he was considered by anti-corruption association Anticor to be at serious risk of conflicts of interest over his previous posts at France Télécom and Atos.[4][5][6]
^"Commission européenne : le candidat français Thierry Breton cède toutes ses actions". LExpress.fr (in French). 7 November 2019. Archived from the original on 22 April 2021. Retrieved 22 April 2021.
^Breton, Thierry (13 January 2021). "Déclaration d'intérêts" (PDF). European Commission. Archived (PDF) from the original on 22 April 2021. Retrieved 22 April 2021.
^"Atos on Forbes Global 2000 list". Forbes. May 2015. Archived from the original on 21 June 2015. Retrieved 21 June 2015.
^AFP. "Pour entrer à la Commission européenne, Thierry Breton a bien cédé la totalité de ses actions" (in French). BFM Business. Retrieved 5 February 2020..
^Anticor, Rédaction (12 October 2019). "Anticor porte plainte avec constitution de partie civile dans le dossier des radars automatiques | ANTICOR" (in French). Retrieved 29 October 2019..
^AFP (25 October 2019). "Commission européenne : Thierry Breton ciblé par une nouvelle plainte d'Anticor" (in French). Le Parisien. Retrieved 8 November 2019..
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