Martin Hirsch par Claude Truong-Ngoc avril 2013

Martin Hirsch (born 6 December 1963 in

Suresnes Suresnes () is a commune in the western inner suburbs of Paris, France. Located in Hauts-de-Seine, from the centre of Paris, it had a population of 49,482 as of 2020. Suresnes borders the Bois de Boulogne in the 16th arrondissement of Paris, ...

) is a French

civil servant The civil service is a collective term for a sector of government composed mainly of career civil service personnel hired rather than elected, whose institutional tenure typically survives transitions of political leadership. A civil service offic ...

who was the former head of Emmaüs France, the former High Commissioner for Active Solidarity against Poverty, and the High Commissioner for Youth in the government of

François Fillon François Charles Amand Fillon (; born 4 March 1954) is a French retired politician who served as Prime Minister of France from 2007 to 2012 under President Nicolas Sarkozy. He was the nominee of The Republicans (previously known as the Union ...

. Hirsch was in charge of setting up the

Revenu de solidarité active The Revenu de solidarité active (RSA) is a French Social security, social welfare benefit that supplements the income of a person who is destitute or has few resources, in order to guarantee a minimum income. It replaced the former Revenu minimu ...

and left the government in March 2010 to head the state's Civic Service Agency. Hirsch holds a master's degree in

Neurobiology Neuroscience is the scientific study of the nervous system (the brain, spinal cord, and peripheral nervous system), its functions, and its disorders. It is a multidisciplinary science that combines physiology, anatomy, molecular biology, ...

and is an alumnus of the

École Normale Supérieure École or Ecole may refer to: * an elementary school in the French educational stages normally followed by Secondary education in France, secondary education establishments (collège and lycée) * École (river), a tributary of the Seine flowing i ...

and of the

École Nationale d'Administration The (; ENA; ) was a French ''grande école'', created in 1945 by the then Provisional Government of the French Republic, provisional chief of government Charles de Gaulle and principal co-author of the Constitution of France, 1958 Constitution M ...

. He is married to Florence Noiville.Martin Hirsch biographic notice
on OECD's website

Bibliography

*''Les Enjeux de la protection sociale'' (1993) *''L'Affolante Histoire de la vache folle'' (en coll., 1996) *''Ces Peurs qui nous gouvernent'' (2002) *''Manifeste contre la pauvreté'' (2004) *''La Pauvreté en héritage: deux millions d'enfants pauvres en France'' (2006) *''L'abbé Pierre : « Mes amis, au secours ! »'', coll. "

Découvertes Gallimard (, ; in United Kingdom: ''New Horizons'', in United States: ''Abrams Discoveries'') is an Collection (publishing), editorial collection of Book illustration, illustrated monographic books published by the Éditions Gallimard in Pocket edition, ...

" (n° 583) (2012)

References

External links

Blog of Martin Hirsh
on the

Nouvel Observateur (), previously known as (2014–2024), (1964–2014), (1954–1964), (1953–1954), and (1950–1953), is a weekly French news magazine. Based in the 2nd arrondissement of Paris, ' is one of the three most prominent French news magazines a ...

website (in French). French civil servants École Normale Supérieure alumni École nationale d'administration alumni 1963 births Living people French people of German-Jewish descent {{france-bio-stub