Marc Schwartz

Marc Schwartz was born in Paris in 1963. He is Master Advisor at the Cour des comptes (French Audit Office) and lectures on the economy of media and cultural industries at the School of Public Affairs, Sciences Po Paris.

Appointed Auditor to the Cour des comptes in 1988, he joined the Treasury General Management in 1992 and the French Embassy in Singapore in 1994 as Financial Advisor for South-East Asia. He advised the Ministry of the Economy, Finance and Industry and the Secretary of State for the Budget (Dominique Strauss-Kahn, Christian Sautter, Florence Parly) from 1997 to 2000 and was Cabinet Director of the Secretary of State for Foreign Trade (Jacques Dondeaux).

He joined France Télévisions in 2000 as Finance Director and was later promoted to Assistant CEO in charge of group management, resources and synergies. In 2006 he founded the strategic advisory firm A&S Conseil and in 2010 became a Partner at Mazars, a global public sector management firm.

He has led numerous official assignments: negotiator of the agreement between the State, the Post Office and the Press (2008); mediator in the Google-press publishers conflict (2012); head of the working party on the future of France Télévisions (2014); negotiator of the digital music value-sharing agreement (2015); general rapporteur of the Cour des comptes enquiry into the shareholder State (2017); and think-tank assignment on press distribution (2018).

Appointed Mediator of the Book in 2016, he became Director of the Cabinet of the Culture Minister (Françoise Nyssen) in May 2017, and Chairman and CEO of Monnaie de Paris by presidential decree in November 2018.

Marc Schwartz is a graduate of Sciences Po Paris, holds a Master’s degree in corporate finance and an Executive MBA, and is a former pupil of the École nationale d’administration (Michel de Montaigne year).