Yazid Sabeg (born 8 January 1950) is a French businessman. He is thepresident of theadministrative council of the high-technology firmCS Communication and Systems [fr] and also a member of theInstitute of International and Strategic Relations [fr].
Born inGuelma,Algeria to adocker father, he moved to what was then metropolitan France in 1952, and did his studies at Faidherbe Secondary School inLille and then at theUniversity of Paris I where he obtained aPhD in economic and social sciences.
Sabeg began his career at a subsidiary ofCrédit Lyonnais Bank. In 1990, after an experience inSpie Batignolles, he founded a financial firm thanks to which he took control of the Compagnie des Signaux, known as CS Communication et Systèmes.
His success in the business world, coupled with hisMaghrebian origins, have given him a lot of media coverage. Member of theMontaigne Institute [fr], he is close to theUMP.[1] In 2004, he publishedDiscrimination positive, pourquoi la France ne peut y échapper [Positive discrimination, why France cannot escape from it] with his brother Yacine, a journalist.[2][3]
He has been nominated as the "commissaire à l'égalité des chances" inFrançois Fillon government by French presidentNicolas Sarkozy on 17 December 2008.[4]
Sabeg warned that France risked becoming anapartheid state unless it brings minorities into the mainstream. "Today we are creating a rift that is leading straight to apartheid", said Sabeg when named commissioner for diversity and equal opportunities. "We cannot allow France to become an apartheid state", he said in an interview to several French media asBarack Obama, the first black American to serve as US president, began his first full day in office.[5]
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