Mathieu Laine

Mathieu Laine (born April 9, 1975) is a French entrepreneur and intellectual.[1][2]

Mathieu Laine
Academic work
Institutions

He is the founder and head of Altermind, a consultancy firm based in Paris and London. He also created with Emile Servan-Schreiber, the predictive markets company Hypermind.

He is an affiliate professor at Sciences Po Paris.[3] He is the author of many essays on liberalism and works as an editorialist for the French weekly political magazines Le Point and Le Figaro.

Life and career

Laine is the son and grandson of doctors. He developed a great interest for Economics in high school. In 1993, he was admitted to the prestigious Sciences Po Paris. However, he dropped out the very first year in order to work with the liberal politician, Alain Madelin. In 1995, he was actively engaged in Jacques Chirac’s campaign to French presidency. After three years devoted to politics, he went back to university[4][5] at the elite French law school Assas from which he graduated in business law. He also graduated in Finance at Sciences Po Paris and is registered at the Paris Bar.[6]

From 2001 to 2007, Laine worked as corporate lawyer for Bredin Prat and then for Brandford-Griffith.[7][8] In 2005, after having been deputy-director of the Institut Turgot, he joined the board of the Association pour la liberté économique et le progrès social (ALEPS).[9]

In 2007, he founded the consultancy firm Altermind. Altermind offers academic expertises advocating for liberalisation of markets, produces studies of behavioral and experimental economy to competition authorities and delivers strategy consulting to heads of major companies.[10]

In 2009, he became an advisor for the Fondation pour l’innovation politique (Foundation for Political Innovation) in charge of a taskforce on economic growth.

In 2011, he worked as an advisor for Marc Simoncini on the launch of his website dedicated to the online sale of glasses and low-priced lenses, which eventually led to the opening up of the optics market. He also advised numerous heads major companies and entrepreneurs such as Vincent Bolloré, Alexandre Bompard, David Dayan, Thierry Petit, Stéphane Courbit, Giovanni Castellucci and Jean-Charles Decaux.[1]

In 2014, he created Altermind UK in London.

In 2015, he created Hypermind with Emile Servan-Scheiber, a company specialised in prediction markets.[11]

He teaches Economics and Political Philosophy at Sciences Po. In 2019, he was appointed affiliate professor at Sciences Po where he created a lecture class course named "Freedom in the 21st century".[3]

Other positions

  • Member of the editorial committee of the Revue Commentaire[12]
  • Member of the French social club Le Siècle
  • Director of Showroomprivé since October 2015, in charge of the nominations and remunerations committee[7]

Political and intellectual views

Apart from his works as an essayist, Laine works as editorialist for the French magazines Le Point and Challenges. He regularly publishes articles voicing a liberal agenda in French newspapers such as Le Figaro, Le Monde, L’Express or Les Echos. From 2007 to 2010, he was a weekly columnist for Le Figaro-Magazine. He also worked as columnist for the magazine L’Opinion the year of its launch.

Political views

In 2002, Laine published an open letter to the then French Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin about his « cent jours » as head of the cabinet.[4]

He met Emmanuel Macron in 2008, then banker at Rothschild. Laine was one of the firsts to encourage Emmanuel Macron to run for the French presidency.[13] In December 2015, a year before his candidacy, he publicly invited him to do it in an article published in Le Point.[14]

In 2016, he explained he was advising both Emmanuel Macron and François Fillon in the presidency race due to their liberal sensibility.[4][15] He even considered an alliance between Macron and Fillon.[16]

In April 2017, he publicly supported Emmanuel Macron for the first round of the presidential election.[17]

He is an active advisor of Emmanuel Macron since his election. He convinced him during the summer 2017 to implement tax reforms in 2018 and not 2019, contrarily to the Prime Minister’s 2017 Policy Address.[18]

Intellectual views

Individual freedoms are the very core of Laine’s thought. He criticised government interventionism as well as modern socialism, which are, according to him, common to both the left and right wings. He asserts that only ‘the power and the primacy of freedom’ can be salutary for France.[19]

In his first essay, La Grande nurserie (The Great Nursery) in 2006, he argues that the actions of the « Etat Nounou » (the nursing state) are breaking ‘the individual energies, the growth and the sense of responsibility’ by implementing preventive and prohibitive regulations.[20] He considers those regulations to be freedom destroying and demonstrates their inefficiency due to their ‘suffocating’ effects on individuals. He proposes an alternate liberal approach based on individual responsibility and on lesser governmental activities.[21]

In Post Politique (2009) he depicts an archaic political power and advocates for a post-politics society where the individuals abandon the idea of an omnipresent and almighty political power. In 2012, he conducted the publication of the works of 65 worldwide authors in the Dictionnaire du libéralisme (Dictionary of liberalism).[22]

Musical tale

Mathieu Laine wrote Le Roi qui n'aimait pas la musique, a children musical tale published by Antoine Gallimard. Several of his friends contributed to his project, Karol Beffa (composer), Patrick Bruel (narrator), Renaud Capuçon (violinist), Paul Meyer (clarinetist) and Edgar Moreau (cellist).

Bibliography

  • Discours of Margaret Thatcher in French, Editions Les Belles Lettres, 2016, 560 p. (978-2-251-39909-6)
  • Dictionnaire amoureux de la liberté, Editions Plon, 2016, 848 p. (ISBN 978-2-259-22146-7)[23]
  • La France adolescente, in collaboration with Patrice Huerre, Editions J-C Lattès, 2013, 260 p. (ISBN 978-2709638043)
  • Le dictionnaire du libéralisme, led by Mathieu Laine, Editions Larousse, « À présent » collection, 2012, 640 p. (ISBN 978-2-03-584185-8)
  • Post politique, Éditions Jean-Claude Lattès, 2009. (ISBN 9782709630016) (Political literature Edgar-Faure Award - 2009)
  • La France est foutue, Éditions Jean-Claude Lattès, 2007, 131 p. ISBN 2709629232[24]
  • La Grande Nurserie: En finir avec l'infantilisation des Français, Éditions Jean-Claude Lattès, 2006 ISBN 2709625059
  • L'homme libre: Mélanges en l'honneur de Pascal Salin, Mathieu Laine & Jörg Guido Hülsmann, Les Belles Lettres, 2006, 529 p. ISBN 2251443142

Awards

Private life

Laine was married to Eleonore Salin, daughter of Pascal Salin (economist) with whom he has two children. After his divorce, he wed Alix Foriel-Destezet[28] daughter of Philippe Foriel-Destezet (founder of Adecco) in 2015 with whom he has a daughter.

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gollark: You can use magis to post trades.
gollark: Also, there's a trade thing.
gollark: Unless you freeze the hatchlings.
gollark: You can do this by getting eggs, which hatch into hatchlings, which then grow.

References

  1. Fulda, Anne (2016-02-22). "Mathieu Laine, libéral jubilatoire". Le Figaro (in French). ISSN 0182-5852. Retrieved 2016-12-06.
  2. "Mathieu Laine, l'homme d'affaires de la nouvelle vague libérale". Challenges. Retrieved 2016-12-06.
  3. "Enseignements | Sciences Po". formation.sciences-po.fr. Retrieved October 21, 2019.
  4. "Mathieu Laine, l'homme d'affaires de la nouvelle vague libérale". Challenges (in French). Retrieved 2017-11-08.
  5. "Les nouveaux libéraux: ces intellos newlook de la droite". LExpansion.com (in French). 2015-10-20. Retrieved 2017-11-08.
  6. Po, Alumni Sciences. "l'Association des Sciences-Po - Fiche profil". www.sciences-po.asso.fr. Retrieved 2017-11-08.
  7. "Document de Reference 2016" (PDF). amf-france.org. 2017.
  8. "Mathieu Laine, avocat spécialisé en droit des affaires chez Brandford-Griffith & Associés -Easybourse". www.easybourse.com (in French). Retrieved 2017-11-08.
  9. "Assemblee Generale de L'Aleps: Puissance Intellectuelle du Liberalisme". libres.org (in French). Retrieved 2017-11-08.
  10. "Altermind". www.altermind.fr. Archived from the original on 2011-03-02. Retrieved 2017-11-08.
  11. Béglé, Jérôme (2015-06-03). ""Le Point" lance la révolution des marchés prédictifs". Le Point (in French). Retrieved 2017-11-14.
  12. Commentaire, Revue. "Commentaire". www.commentaire.fr (in French). Retrieved 2017-11-14.
  13. magazine, Le Point (2017-05-08). "Un moment avec... Emmanuel Macron". Le Point (in French). Retrieved 2017-11-14.
  14. Laine, Mathieu (2015-12-30). "Macron: la vraie transgression pour 2017 !". Le Point (in French). Retrieved 2017-11-14.
  15. "Carl Meeus: "Mathieu Laine entre Fillon et Macron"". Figaro (in French). 2016-12-23. Retrieved 2017-11-14.
  16. "L'essayiste Mathieu Laine rêve d'une alliance Fillon-Macron". leparisien.fr. 2016. Retrieved 2017-11-14.
  17. "Mathieu Laine: "Pourquoi je vote Macron après avoir voté Fillon à la primaire"". Figaro (in French). 2017-04-05. Retrieved 2017-11-14.
  18. BFMTV. "Impôts: les coulisses du revirement de Macron". BFMTV (in French). Retrieved 2017-11-14.
  19. "Une incontournable surenchère libérale ?". Le Monde.fr (in French). 2016-05-10. ISSN 1950-6244. Retrieved 2017-11-14.
  20. "La Grande nurserie. En finir avec l'infantilisation des Français". Contribuables Associés (in French). 2006-02-24. Retrieved 2017-11-14.
  21. "Le livre qui dénonce le tout-interdit". leparisien.fr. 2010. Retrieved 2017-11-14.
  22. Gourdoux, Pierre-Louis (2012-06-05). "Entretien avec Mathieu Laine pour le " Dictionnaire du libéralisme " - Première partie". Contrepoints (in French). Retrieved 2017-11-14.
  23. Ouvrage | Plon. Plon. Retrieved 2016-12-06.
  24. "Recherche". JC Lattès, Le Masque. Retrieved 2016-12-06.
  25. "Remise des Prix 2012". www.institut-de-france.fr.
  26. "MATHIEU LAINE Prix Edgar-Faure 2009". Le Figaro (in French). 2009-11-13. ISSN 0182-5852. Retrieved 2017-11-14.
  27. "Mathieu Laine Laureat Du Prix Du Livre Liberal 2009". www.libres.org (in French). Retrieved 2017-11-14.
  28. lefigaro.fr (2006-09-29). "Alix Foriel aux flashs matinaux de M6". TVMag (in French). Retrieved 2017-11-14.

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