[1] Alain Minc was born on April 15, 1949, in Paris[2][3] to a family of Jewish immigrants from Poland.
[7] In 1986, he became Vice-Chairman of CIR International and General Manager of Cerus, non-Italian affiliates of Benedetti Group.
[3] He is also a board member of Prisa, Fnac, Direct Energie, Ingenico, and Yves Saint Laurent.
[3][6] He has been an advisor to Edouard Balladur, François Pinault, Vincent Bolloré,[9] and ex-French President Nicolas Sarkozy.
[6][11] Since December 2011, he is President of the board of directors of Société des Autoroutes du Nord et de l'Est de la France (SANEF)[12] which operates motorways in northeast France under a French government concession.