Background
MER, Francis was born on May 25, 1939 in Pau, Basses Pyrenees. Son of Rene Mer and Yvonne Casalta.
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Francis Paul Mer
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Education
Lyc£e Montesquieu, Bordeaux, Ecole Rationale Superieure des Mines, Paris and Ecole Polytechnique.
Career
He was hired in 1970 by the Saint-Gobain group. In 1982, he became chairman of the board of Pont-à-Mousson Société Anonyme. In the 1980s, he joined the Saint-Simon Foundation think-tank. Following the 1986 legislative elections and the nomination of the conservative Jacques Chirac as Prime Minister, he was nominated as president of the new Usinor group.
He was reelected to his position in 1995, upon the group"s privatization, and renamed the group Arcelor in 2002.
From 2002 to 2004, he was Minister of Finances in Jean-Pierre Raffarin"s conservative government. Since 2005, he seats on the board of directors of Vale Inco, which benefited from an important tax rebate to exploit a nickel mine in New Caledonia, while he was Minister of Finances.
In June 2009, he became chairman of the board of Safran. In April 2011, due to the change of structure of Safran, Jean-Paul Herteman became Chief Executive Officer and Francis Mer became Vice Chairman.
Membership
A former alumnus of the École Polytechnique, and of the École des Mines de Paris, he is a member of the Corps des mines.
Connections
Married Catherine Bonfils in 1964.
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France