Nicolas Beytout

Nicolas Beytout     ( journalist,  editor)
Born	8 June 1956  Neuilly-sur-Seine,  France
Nationality	French
Member of	Trilateral Commission
Quad Bilderberg French editor/journalist  Figaro/Editor-in-chief In office 2004 - 2007 Employer Figaro Bilderberger  Les Échos/Editorial director In office 1996 - 2004 Employer Les Échos Bilderberger

Nicolas Beytout is a French business editor who attended four Bilderberg meetings and is a member of the Trilateral Commission.

Background

He is son of Daniel Beytout and Odile Pollet, the second of six children. His grandfather, Pierre Beytout (1905-1976), was a doctor of pharmacy and director of Roussel laboratories. He first married Claudine Cholet (1910-1957), with whom he had six children, including Daniel, Nicolas's father. In 1957, he married Jacqueline Beytout (1918-2006), who inherited the fortune of a wealthy Danish peanut merchant in Senegal and who would later become the owner and publishing director of the daily newspaper Les Échos from 1963 to 1989.

Education

He graduated from Sciences Po Paris in 1978.

Career

He began his career as a journalist for Les Échos, of which he was appointed editor-in-chief by his grandmother by marriage, owner of the newspaper at the time, then as editorial director in 1996.

He presented a business program on the TV channel TF1, from 1994 to 2001. On LCI he was the presenter of a similar program from 1994 to 1997 and again from September 1999 to September 2003

He is a regular guest and commentator in several other channels.

His appointment by Serge Dassault in 2004 to editor-in-chief at Figaro provoked criticism from the unions of this newspaper, who feared the influence of its owners on the content of the newspaper..

He was one of the guests at a party to celebrate the victory of Nicolas Sarkozy in the presidential election.

On November 19, 2007, Nicolas Beytout announced to the editorial board of Le Figaro that he will leave his position as editorial director to join the LVMH group as director of the Media division. On September 29, 2011, the LVMH group announced the departure of Beytout from the position of chairman and CEO of the Les Échos Group, and his replacement by Francis Morel, former CEO of Le Figaro.

In 2013, he created a new newspaper, L'Opinion, which he defines as having a "liberal, pro-business and pro-European" orientation and whose first issue comes out in May. Nicolas Beytout is a minority shareholder.

He regularly was paid to organize business conferences

He taught at the Institute of Political Studies in Paris as an associate professor.

 

Events Participated in

Event	Start	End	Location(s)	Description
Bilderberg/2001	24 May 2001	27 May 2001	Sweden Stenungsund	The 49th Bilderberg, in Sweden. Reported on the WWW.
Bilderberg/2003	15 May 2003	18 May 2003	France Versailles	The 51st Bilderberg, in Versailles, France
Bilderberg/2004	3 June 2004	6 June 2004	Italy Stresa	The 52nd such meeting. 126 recorded guests
Bilderberg/2005	5 May 2005	8 May 2005	Germany Rottach-Egern	The 53rd Bilderberg, 132 guests, the earliest in the year since the 1967 Bilderberg
WEF/Annual Meeting/2004	21 January 2004	25 January 2004	Switzerland WEF	2068 billionaires, CEOs and their politicians and "civil society" leaders met under the slogan Partnering for Prosperity and Security. "We have the people who matter," said World Economic Forum Co-Chief Executive Officer José María Figueres.

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