Jean Matteoli

Jean Mattéoli (20 December 1922 in Montchanin, Saône-et-Loire – 27 January 2008 in Paris) was a French politician. He was the Minister of Social Affairs (France) during the Raymond Barre administration from 1979 to 1981 and also served as president of the French Economic and Social Council from April 1987 and September 1999.

Hired in shares of the French Resistance in August 1940, he belonged to two networks: the Office of Flight Operations and the Network Navarre as Chargé de Mission. Arrested on 7 April 1944, he was deported to the concentration camp at Neuengamme, and Bergen-Belsen. He was in such securities, subject to three citations, including two at the College of the Army and one in the Order of the Regiment.

In the beginning of 1945, as Head of Mission to the Office of the Commissioner of the Republic of Burgundy and Franche-Comté, he was, the following year, appointed Head of Mission for economic and financial issues to the Cabinet by the Administrator General of the area French occupation in Germany, Emile Laffon, when he accompanied the latter took office as President of Houillères du Bassin du Nord and Pas-de-Calais in northern France.

In October 1968, for his extensive knowledge of the terrain, the French Government appointed him Commissioner for Industrial Conversion of the Nord Pas-de-Calais, Chairman of the Office of Departmental Industrialisation of the Bulge, and in 1973, President of the Charbonnages de France.

A member of the Economic and Social Council in early 1973, he was elected, in October 1974, President of the Section of Economic problems and the general trends.

He joined the French Government in November 1979 as Minister of Labour and Public Participation.

Elected in 1983 as Counsellor in Paris, Deputy Mayor and Regional Councillor, he abandoned such functions as a result of his election as President of the Economic and Social Council, in April 1987, succeeding Gabriel Ventejol. He was then re-elected Chairman of the House, 10 October 1989, 10 March 1992, 28 September 1994 and 25 March 1997.

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