Jacques Attali was born on the 1st of November 1943. Graduate from the Ecole Polytechnique and the Ecole Nationale d’Administration, he was the Special Adviser to French President François Mitterrand for 10 years. He founded 4 International Institutions:  Action contre la faim, Eureka, EBRD and Positive Planet. Positive Planet is working on the transformation of the world economy in favour of the next generations. Jacques Attali has written more than 80 books sold in 10 million copies and translated into 22 languages. He is a columnist for the French magazine ' les Echos'. He has conducted several orchestras over the world. His main fields of research and writing are the different dimensions of the future: technologies, economy, ideologies, geopolitics, and values.