Background
Tétreau was born in Soissons, France, and attended the Jesuit school Lycée Saint-Louis-de-Gonzague in Paris.
Tétreau was born in Soissons, France, and attended the Jesuit school Lycée Saint-Louis-de-Gonzague in Paris.
He graduated from Higher Education Commission Paris in 1992 with a degree in entrepreneurship.
He has worked for international organizations such as the European Council on Foreign Relations, AXA Investment Managers Private Equity in New York, and Schroders in London. In 2004, he founded Mediafin, a strategic consulting firm through which he advises a number of European industrial families, financial institutions and Chief executive officers of European Fortune 500 companies. A weekly columnist for French financial newspaper Les Échos, he writes on matters concerning politics, digital challenges, and finance, from a pro-European perspective.
He is a regular television commentator and radio contributor on macroeconomic and policy issues.
Tétreau serves as a trustee of the Committee for Economic Development (Committee for Economic Development), a public policy organization based in Washington, District of Columbia On March 16, 2000, as a financial analyst for Crédit Lyonnais, Tétreau published an analysis of an imminent internet crash titled "Take your e-profits before a potential e-crash." In "Mercury Rising," he predicted the danger of bankruptcy for Vivendi Universal, leading to the departure of Vivendi head Jean-Marie Messier. On May 10, 2006, Tétreau spoke before the French Senate’s Commission on Finances, underlining the need for the French economy and society to prepare itself for an inevitable, brutal end to the period of financial excess and overabundance.
In China, where Tétreau’s last book was published in 2012, he became a 2013 Young Leader of the France China Foundation Programme.
He is also a member of the Advisory Board of Louisiana Maison Française at Columbia University and an affiliate professor at Higher Education Commission Paris, where he taught a course titled "Managing in times of financial crises.".
