Yazid Sabeg (born 8 January 1950) is a French businessman. He is the president of the administrative council of the high-technology firm CS Communication and Systems and also a member of the Institute of International and Strategic Relations.
Early life and education
editBorn in Guelma, Algeria to a docker father, he moved to what was then metropolitan France in 1952, and did his studies at Faidherbe Secondary School in Lille and then at the University of Paris I where he obtained a PhD in economic and social sciences.
Career
editSabeg began his career at a subsidiary of Crédit Lyonnais Bank. In 1990, after an experience in Spie Batignolles, he founded a financial firm thanks to which he took control of the Compagnie des Signaux, known as CS Communication et Systèmes.
His success in the business world, coupled with his Maghrebian origins, have given him a lot of media coverage. Member of the Montaigne Institute, he is close to the UMP.[1] In 2004, he published Discrimination positive, pourquoi la France ne peut y échapper [Positive discrimination, why France cannot escape from it] with his brother Yacine, a journalist.[2][3]
Work for diversity and equality
editHe has been nominated as the "commissaire à l'égalité des chances" in François Fillon government by French president Nicolas Sarkozy on 17 December 2008.[4]
Sabeg warned that France risked becoming an apartheid state unless it brings minorities into the mainstream. "Today we are creating a rift that is leading straight to apartheid", said Sabeg when named commissioner for diversity and equal opportunities. "We cannot allow France to become an apartheid state", he said in an interview to several French media as Barack Obama, the first black American to serve as US president, began his first full day in office.[5]
References
edit- ^ Henley, Jon (February 13, 2004). "No place for French Muslims on party list". The Guardian.
- ^ "Discrimination positive: Pourquoi la France ne peut y échapper". Equall.fr. Archived from the original on 2008-11-13. Retrieved 2009-03-24.
- ^ Sabeg, Yazid; Sabeg, Yacine (2004). Discrimination positive: pourquoi la France ne peut y échapper. Calmann-Lévy. ISBN 978-2702135112.
- ^ Chrisafis, Angelique (March 23, 2009). "French plan to break taboo on ethnic data causes uproar". The Guardian.
- ^ "French czar warns of "apartheid"". peoplestar.co.uk. Archived from the original on 2012-07-26. Retrieved 2009-01-21.
Further reading
edit- Rossant, John (31 January 2005). "Liberte, Egalite, Affirmative Action". Bloomberg Businessweek. Archived from the original on 2005-01-29.
External links
edit- "France's disaffected Muslim businessmen". BBC News. 4 November 2005.
- "L'intégration est-elle en panne?". Le Monde (in French). 29 November 2005.