Yazid Sabeg

Yazid Sabeg
Chairman of the Board, CS - Communication & Systèmes, France

Born: 8 January 1950
Nationality: French
Married, 3 children

Education and Experience

Ph.D. in Economics

Mr. Sabeg began his professional career at UBAF (a subsidiary of Crédit Lyonnais) in 1973 and then joined the government agency DATAR (1974-1976).
1978-1981: Spie Batignolles, Director of Development
1981-1987: Founder, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Enerfinance
1988: Managing Director of Euris, a financial company
1989: Chief Executive Officer of Quadral, an industrial and financial company

In 1991, he assumed leadership of the industrial group CSEE (today Communication & Systèmes, formerly Compagnie des Signaux), of which he is now Chairman of the Board of Directors.

In 2004, he was appointed Chairman of the Evaluation and Monitoring Committee of the National Urban Renewal Agency (Agence Nationale pour la Rénovation Urbaine, ANRU) by Jean-Louis Borloo, Minister for Employment, Social Cohesion and Housing

Reports and publications

In January 2004, he published Les Oubliés de l’Egalité des Chances, with Laurence Méhaignerie, through the Institut Montaigne, which was reissued in 2006 in the series Hachette Pluriel; in this book, he makes concrete proposals for proactive government measures to promote diversity in the fields of employment, housing, public services and politics.

In October 2004, he published, with his brother Yacine Sabeg, La Discrimination Positive: Pourquoi la France ne peut y échapper (published by Calmann-Lévy).

In 2005, has was asked by Jean-Louis Borloo, to prepare, together with Christian Larose and Dominique Jean Chertier, a report on the creation of a scheme to improve job security (contract de transition professionnelle – CTP), which is currently being tested in a number of French employment areas.
           
Languages

Arabic, English

Honorary awards

Chevalier dans l’Ordre National du Mérite
Chevalier de la Légion d’Honneur

Interests

Painting, reading, music, chess, hunting, yachting