Albert Jacquard (23 December 1925 – 11 September 2013) was a French geneticist, popularizer of science and essayist.

In 1951, he entered the French tobacco monopoly SEITA (which merged with its Spanish counterpart Tabacalera to form Altadis in 1999) as an organisation and method engineer.

Back in France in 1968, he joined French Institute for Demographic Studies as supervisor of the genetics department.

I just want to show that it must not resemble the society of today.While he was part of the French Consultative Committee of Ethics (Comité consultatif national d'éthique) in the early 1990s, he took a strong stand against commercial use of the human genome.

He was very close to the anti-globalization movement and regularly came to the defense of illegal immigrants and homeless people in France.