Jacques Fournier (government official)

Jacques Fournier (5 May 1929 – 14 August 2021) was a French government official.^[1][2]

Jacques Fournier
Fournier in 2015
Secrétaire général du Gouvernement [fr]
In office 10 July 1982 – 26 March 1986
Preceded by	Marceau Long [fr]
Succeeded by	Renaud Denoix de Saint Marc
Personal details
Born	5 May 1929 Épinal, France
Died	14 August 2021(2021-08-14) (aged 92)
Political party	PS

Biography

Fournier spent his childhood and studies in French Algeria. He was a student at the École nationale d'administration from 1951 to 1953 and subsequently served as a legal advisor at the French Embassy in Morocco from 1961 to 1964. He then served as a Conseiller d'État and was on Plan Commission. He served as Deputy Secretary General of the Presidency of the French Republic [fr], then Secrétaire général du Gouvernement [fr] from 1982 to 1986 before being relieved of his duties by Renaud Denoix de Saint Marc.^[3] He then served as President of Gaz de France from 1986 to 1988. He subsequently served as President of SNCF from 24 August 1988 to 1 March 1993.^[4]

A political activist, Fournier became a member of the Socialist Party following the Epinay Congress and joined the Centre d'études, de recherches et d'éducation socialiste [fr].

Jacques Fournier died on 14 August 2021 at the age of 92.^[5]

Publications

• Politique de l'éducation (1972)
• Traité du social (1976)
• Le Pouvoir du social (1979)
• Le Travail gouvernemental (1987)^[6]
• Le Train, l’Europe et le service public (1993)
• Critique de la raison communautaire (1996)
• Livre blanc sur le dialogue social dans la fonction publique (2002)
• Itinéraire d’un fonctionnaire engagé (2008)
• L'Économie des besoins (2013)