Pierre Moscovici

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Pierre Moscovici
Moscovici in 2015
First President of the Court of Audit
Incumbent
Assumed office 3 June 2020
President	Emmanuel Macron
Preceded by	Didier Migaud
European Commissioner for Economic and Financial Affairs, Taxation and Customs
In office 1 November 2014 – 30 November 2019
President	Jean-Claude Juncker
Preceded by	Algirdas Šemeta
Succeeded by	Paolo Gentiloni
Minister of Finance
In office 16 May 2012 – 2 April 2014
President	François Hollande
Prime Minister	Jean-Marc Ayrault
Preceded by	François Baroin
Succeeded by	Michel Sapin
Member of the National Assembly for Doubs's 4th constituency
In office 16 May 1997 – 1 November 2014
Preceded by	Irène Tharin
Succeeded by	Frédéric Barbier
Personal details
Born	(1957-09-16) 16 September 1957 (age 67) Paris, France
Political party	Socialist Party
Spouse	Anne-Michelle Basteri ​ ​ (m. 2015)​
Children	1
Parent(s)	Serge Moscovici Marie Broomberg
Education	Lycée Condorcet
Alma mater	Sciences Po, ÉNA

Pierre Moscovici (French pronunciation: [pjɛʁ mɔskɔvisi], Romanian: [moskoˈvitʃʲ]; born 16 September 1957) is a French politician who served as the European Commissioner for Economic and Financial Affairs, Taxation and Customs from 2014 to 2019.^[1] He previously served as Minister of Finance from 2012 to 2014 and as Minister for European Affairs between 1997 and 2002.

Previously a member of the Trotskyist group the Revolutionary Communist League, Moscovici joined the French Socialist Party (PS) in 1984 and has since that time been a member of the Departmental Council of Doubs and of the French Parliament and the European Parliament.

In May 2014 he was entrusted by the Prime Minister of France with a six-month mission to assess how European policies can better contribute to growth and employment. In July 2014 French President François Hollande proposed him to be France's representative in the next European Commission. In September 2014, he was named as European Commissioner for Economic and Financial Affairs, Taxation and Customs by President-designate of the European Commission Jean-Claude Juncker.