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Éric Lombard | |
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_(cropped).jpg) Lombard in 2018 | |
| Minister of Economy, Finance, Industrial and Digital Sovereignty | |
| In office 23 December 2024 – 5 October 2025 | |
| Prime Minister | François Bayrou |
| Preceded by | Antoine Armand |
| Succeeded by | Roland Lescure |
| CEO ofCaisse des dépôts et consignations | |
| In office 8 December 2017 – 23 December 2024 | |
| Preceded by | Pierre-René Lemas |
| Succeeded by | Olivier Sichel |
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| Born | Éric Roger Pierre Lombard (1958-05-16)16 May 1958 (age 67) |
| Political party | Independent |
| Other political affiliations | Socialist Party (formerly)[1] |
| Children | 3 |
| Alma mater | HEC Paris |
Éric Roger Pierre Lombard (French pronunciation:[eʁiklɔ̃baʁ]; born 16 May 1958) is a French businessman and politician who has served asMinister of Economics and Finance in thegovernment ofPrime MinisterFrançois Bayrou since 2024.[2] From 2017 to 2024, he served as CEO of theCaisse des dépôts et consignations.[3][4]
Éric Lombard is the son of Alfred Lombard, who is a senior executive inNouvelles Galeries, and Annie Lévy, who is a graphologist and daughter ofPierre Lévy (industrialist) [fr],[5] an industrialist who founded the Devanlay group inTroyes.
From 2004 to 2007, he was the CEO of theArt et Biens holding company, managing the family assets.[6] His grandparents, Pierre and Denise Lévy, had collected more than 4,000 works of art, 2,000 of which were bequeathed in 1976 to Troyes, where, in 1982, theMusée d'art moderne de Troyes has opened.[7]
Lombard is married to a visual artist,[8] Françoise Carré,[9] and has three children.[10]
Lombard graduated fromHEC Paris in 1981.[11]
In 1989, he became technical advisor to the government's spokesman in the cabinet ofLouis Le Pensec, and then theMinistry of the Overseas. Lombard worked as an advisor toMichel Sapin from 1991 to 1993, first at theMinistry of Justice and later at the Ministry of Economics and Finance.[12]
On 16 November 2017, whilePierre-René Lemas had been acting as head of the institution since 22 August, Éric Lombard was proposed byEmmanuel Macron to succeed him as director of theCaisse des dépôts et consignations (CDC),[13] on the basis of a project to make it the financial institution for the common good.[14] His appointment is subject to the approval of the committees of the National Assembly and the Senate.[15] It was confirmed by a vote of the senators on 28 November 2017[16] and made official by the Council of Ministers on 8 December.[17] Its first success is to bring together within a single structure the consulting and financing expertise of the CDC for regional players under a single brand: theBank of Territories [fr].
Éric Lombard, France's current finance minister, has pitched himself as someone who can serve as a bridge to the Socialists given that he used to be a party member.
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