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Mr. Baconnier began his career in 1967 as a civil servant at the French Ministry of Economy and Finance, and was assigned to the Internal Revenue Service (Direction Generale des Impots). From 1977 to 1979, he was the Technical Advisor to the office of the Minister of Economy and Finance, then Deputy Director in the office of the Minister for the Budget. From 1979 to 1983, he was Deputy Director in charge of the International Division of the Tax Legislation Department; in 1983 he was appointed head of the Litigation
Department of the Internal Revenue Service. In 1986, he became the head of the Internal Revenue Service. From 1990 to 1991, he was the Paymaster General at the French Treasury, and then in 1991 he joined the law firm Bureau Francis Lefebvre, where he served as Chairman of the Management Board until 2004.
Currently, he is the Chairman and CEO of ANSA, the French National Association of Joint Stock Companies. In addition, he serves as an advisor to the French Foreign Trade Commission and he is the Chairman of the Tax Committee of MEDEF, the French employer's federation. | 