Yazid Sabeg
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Yazid Sabeg, born on 8 January 1950 in Guelma, Algeria, is the president of the administrative council of the French high-technology firm SSII (CS Communication and Systems) and also a member of the French Institute of International and Strategic Relations.
Born to a docker father, he immigrated to France in 1952, did his studies at Faidherbe Secondary School in Lille and then at the University of Paris I where he obtained a doctorate in economic and social sciences. He began his career at a subsidiary of Crédit Lyonnais. In 1990, after an experience in the building Spie-Batignolles, he founded a finance firm thanks to which he took control of the Compagnie des Signaux, which is now known as CS Communication et Systèmes.
His success in the business world, coupled with his Maghrebian origins, have given him a lot of media coverage. Member of the Montaigne Institute, he is close to the UMP. He published Discrimination positive, pourquoi la France ne peut y échapper (Positive discrimination, why France cannot escape from it) with his brother Yacine, a journalist.
