It’s hard to be closer to Emmanuel Macron than Marc Ferracci in the Barnier government. The new Minister Delegate for Industry is a loyal follower of the President of the Republic, better, a close friend. The two men, born two days apart in December 1977, have known each other since their studies at Sciences Po in 1999. The Head of State was his best man at his wedding with Sophie Ferracci – who headed Minister Macron’s office at Bercy in 2016. Marc Ferracci was the best man at his wedding with Brigitte Macron.
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Member of Parliament (Renaissance) for French people abroad since 2022, a graduate of HEC and a doctor of economic sciences, Marc Ferracci was one of the authors of candidate Macron’s employment program in 2017. During the first five-year term, he was Muriel Pénicaud’s special advisor at the Ministry of Labor – where he participated in the development of labor ordinances and the first reform of unemployment insurance – then economic advisor to Jean Castex at Matignon.
A social-liberal left-winger, this 46-year-old economist specializing in labor often cites the flexisecurity of Scandinavian countries as an example. His father, Pierre Ferracci, also close to Emmanuel Macron, runs the company Alpha, a powerful consulting group for works councils.
Reindustrialization mission
Marc Ferracci therefore joins the citadel of Bercy, under the supervision of the young Minister of Economy and Finance, Antoine Armand (33 years old), with responsibility for industry. His predecessor in the Attal government, Roland Lescure, had inherited the dual portfolio of industry and energy, a strategic rapprochement requested and obtained at the time by Bruno Le Maire. In the Barnier team, energy management returns to the Ministry of Ecological Transition, entrusted to another Macronist MP, Olga Givernet, under the supervision of Agnès Pannier-Runacher, who is returning to the Hôtel de Roquelaure.
Marc Ferracci will take charge of France’s reindustrialization policy, one of the issues often put forward by the executive over the past three years, with the objective of decarbonizing the economy by 2050. “For the first time in decades, France is opening more factories than it is closing, creating more industrial jobs than it is destroying (…) The decarbonization of industry is underway and the development of green industry is accelerating”Roland Lescure said in a press release published on Saturday evening, September 21, after the announcement of the new government.
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