Exclusive excerpt from Jacques Attali’s book — Jacques Attali is a rare voice on the global stage: special Adviser to French President Mitterrand for 10 years; founder of 4 international institutions: Action contre la faim, EUREKA, BERD and Positive Planet; his more than 80 books are available in 22 languages and have sold 9 million copies worldwide. …

1- 2 questions to Jacques Attali 2- revisiting 2020 forecasts around Jack Ma’s fate and a plea for a Climate Reconstruction Bank — (cross posting from my Substack newsletter Perspective And Context, with updates from today) Jacques Attali is a rare voice on the global landscape: special Adviser to French President Mitterrand for 10 years; founder of 4 international institutions: Action contre la faim, EUREKA, BERD and Positive Planet; his more than 80…

2020–22 will surely be remembered as the 24 months when a majority of the world has felt connected but united in adversity: united against the COVID pandemic, which remains the singular event whose ripple effects have touched 8 billion of us more or less at the same time; united in…

1 When in doubt professionally, trust yourself and go back to your first love Curiosity and life’s turns led me from journalism to technology (telecoms, B2B software) roles in New York, Paris/London/Zürich and Montréal. In 2022 I made my way to the teaching profession and it’s been full circle as…

The focus on the future will be the green transition and semiconductors — The past year has been the theater of harsh decisions from China’s leadership against so-called BAT — Baidu, Alibaba, Tencent. Didi is the next domino to fall as it was “asked” to accelerate its delisting from US stock exchanges, mere months after its IPO. Xi is wilfully jettisoning so-called Chinese…

the next phases for the 2022 campaign — Here are the hunches from last week on Pécresse’s next moves and what panned out: 1/her campaign will work double time to counter her Parisian image and talk up her non-Paris links (her husband has Corrèze roots for example). Watch for Pécresse in boots during hunting season for example: her…

the next phases for the 2022 campaign for Pécresse and Macron —

a conversation with Emma Pattee — COP26 starts in Glasgow this Sunday and much will be made of our individual carbon footprints and how to accelerate its reduction. Oregon-based climate journalist Emma Pattee coined a useful concept that goes beyond: the climate shadow. I reached out to Emma to understand its genesis.

renewables, nuclear and sovereignty —