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Date: November 26, 1997

French Author and Presidential Adviser Attali to Speak on "Problems of Globalization"

PRINCETON, N.J. -- Jacques Attali, a leading French commentator on social and economic affairs, will speak on "Problems of Globalization" at Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs on Wednesday, December 10, at 12:15 p.m. in Robertson Hall, Bowl 5.

Attali was adviser to the president of the French Republic from 1981 until 1991, president of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development from 1991 to 1993, and since 1993 has been a member of the Council of State. He is the author of many books, among them Anti-economique, L'ordre cannibal, Economie de I'Apocalypse, Verbatim (a three-volume diary of his experiences as an adviser to President Mitterrand), and Millennium: Winners and Losers in the Coming World Order.

The Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs is sponsoring Attali's talk.


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