François Ewald is a Intellectuel French, formerly Maoist, adviser of the Medef at the time of Ernest-Antoine Seilliere.

Work and course

When he was young professor of philosopher with Bruay-in-Artois in 1972, François Ewald, was a militant credit at the time of the “Affaire”. The arrival of many intellectuals in this small town enabled him to meet many media personalities like Michel Foucault, Jean-Paul Sartre and to tie durable contacts with some.

François Ewald is director of the National school of insurances. Arts doctor, he is member of the leading committee of the review Risques of which he is one of the founders. François Ewald created Association for the center Michel Foucault - he was the assistant of Michel Foucault with the Collège de France.

Its work concerns in particular the analysis of the Risque. Professor with the Conservatory national of arts and trades, where he always teaches, François Ewald became to advise with the French federation of the insurance companies. He meets with the beginning of the year 1990 Denis Kessler, which of 1998 to 2002 is the number two of Medef.

Kessler and Ewald “pose together the angular stones of an politico-ideological restoration of employers. Their innovation, it is to think the risk either like a prerogative of the contractor justifying the profit, but by extending it to the very whole company”, a vision which largely inspires the speeches of Ernest-Antoine Seilliere distinguishing “riscophiles” and “riscophobes”.

In addition, it published in 1994 with Daniel Defert the collection of the Dits and writings of Michel Foucault and it is responsible with Alessandro Fontana for the edition of the courses of Michel Foucault to the Collège de France.

Regular chronicler in the daily newspaper the Echoes and in other newspapers, he is also president of the Scientific advice and evaluation of the Fondation for the political innovation and member of the Académie of technologies.

Summary bibliography

• the Welfare state (1986)
• Birth of the Civil code (1989)
• the French problem of the therapeutic accidents (1992)
• the precaution principle , in collaboration with Christian Gollier and Nicolas de Sadeleer (2001)