After working for News Corp, the media group of Rupert Murdoch, or Tony Blair, the one who is qualified as “lobbyist” or “spin doctor”, American, joined the Elysée.
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Emmanuel Macron intends to leave a trace in history. To distinguish themselves, among the presidents of the V e Republic, as he had done, before him, General de Gaulle and François Mitterrand, his references. While just his second and last mandate begins and already hurries his successors, the Elysée tenant must make people understand what macronism is truly a political doctrine for the time. Frédéric Michel, 50, will have the heavy task of helping the head of state in this design.
Appointed special communication and strategy advisor at the Elysée, the native of Poitiers, to the international career essentially doomed to the promotion of social democracy in Europe, will take office from Monday, September 12. He takes over from Clément Léonarduzzi, who left for Publicis in the aftermath of the re-election of Emmanuel Macron, and Lemasson Lemasson, who had assured the interim and announced his wish to join the private sector.
Sometimes qualified as “lobbyist” or “spin doctor”, American, Frédéric Michel, former news corp, the media group of Australian Rupert Murdoch, is not entirely ” “. That of Franco-French politics, gets along. Son of a father professor of universities economics, militant socialist, and a mother teacher mother in secondary school, the graduate of Sciences Po Bordeaux, the European University Institute of Florence and the London School of Economics in London has spent most of his career internationally. According to one of his relatives, it is pushed by a kind of “patriotism” that he would have agreed to return to French soil to put himself at the service of the president, well incapable of refusing such a proposal.
leather thickened by crises
The fifties, which so far occupied, from New York, the function of partner of the investment fund Lupa Systems, chaired by James Murdoch, the son of Rupert, writes the first lines of his CV in the United Kingdom . There, he puts himself at the service of British Prime Minister Tony Blair, to promote the “third way” and a modernized social democracy in Europe through the think tank Policy Network.
From abroad, sailing from London to Milan, Frédéric Michel does not completely lose sight of French politics and retains a link which he describes as “emotional” with the Socialist Party. He participated in the publication of Lionel Jospin’s work, my vision of Europe and globalization (Plon, 2001), collaborated for a time with Dominique Strauss-Kahn before he was caught up in scandals on his Private life and is passionate, as Poitevin, for the campaign of Ségolène Royal during the regional of 2004. But his vision of a more European and international left, more modern, pragmatic and liberal, now brings him closer to the chef state.
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