Culture. Billionaire Bernard Arnault elected to the Academy of Moral and Political Sciences

Bernard Arnault, CEO of the world's number one luxury brand LVMH, was elected Monday to the Academy of Moral and Political Sciences.

The billionaire was elected in the first round with 27 votes to chair number one in the “Political economy, statistics and finance” section previously occupied by Denis Kessler, former president of the reinsurer Scor and who died in June 2023.

Arnault joins Yvon Gattaz and Jean Tirole

Bernard Arnault joins in this section of the Academy the former president of the CNPF (ex-Medef) Yvon Gattaz, the former CEO of BNP Paribas Michel Pébereau, the economist Pierre-André Chiappori, the president of Ardian Dominique Senequier , the economist Jean-Claude Casanova and the Nobel Prize winner in economics Jean Tirole.

There are eight academicians per section (Philosophy, Morality and Sociology, Legislation, Public Law and Jurisprudence, Political Economy, Statistics and Finance, History and Geography) and ten academicians in the general section. Bernard Arnault adds this title to that of Grand Cross of the Legion of Honor received in March.

What is the Academy of Moral and Political Sciences?

The Academy of Moral and Political Sciences, which, like the French Academy, is part of the Institut de France, includes fifty full academicians, elected by their peers by absolute majority to a chair left vacant by death or prolonged absence. or the resignation of their predecessor.

Among these fifty holders divided into eight sections, we include the journalist Alain Duhamel, the former ministers Hervé Gaymard and Jean-François Mattei and the former president of the European Central Bank Jean-Claude Trichet.