Dominique Strauss-Kahn

Former French Finance Minister - MP

Dominique Strauss-Kahn is a member of the French Parliament and professor of economics at the Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris and Stanford University.

He began his career as an assistant professor and later professor of economics at the University of Paris. Then he was appointed as Deputy Commissioner of the Economic Planning Agency (81-86).

Afterwards, he was elected at the National Assembly (86) and chaired the finance Committee of the House from 88 to 91. He served as minister of Industry and International Trade in the Cresson (91-92) and Beregovoy (92-93) cabinets. In 95, he was elected mayor of the city of Sarcelles. Then he served as minister of Economy, Finance and Industry from June 97 to the end of 99 in the Jospin cabinet.

His training includes a PhD in economics from the University of Paris. He has also graduated in law, in business administration, in political studies and in statistics. As an academic, his research fields includes households saving behavior, public finance and social policy.
He was born in 1949 and has been brought up  in Morocco. He is married with Anne Sinclair, a very famous journalist, and has four children. Anne Sinclair has two sons from an earlier marriage.

He is interested in information technologies and is fond of music and paintings. He likes to ski and to play chess.