In this role, Macron championed a number of business-friendly reforms. He was later appointed to the French cabinet as Minister of the Economy, Industry and Digital Affairs in August 2014 by prime minister Manuel Valls. Macron was appointed a deputy secretary general by President François Hollande shortly after his election in May 2012, making Macron one of Hollande's senior advisers. He worked as a senior civil servant at the Inspectorate General of Finances and later became an investment banker at Rothschild & Co. īorn in Amiens, Macron studied philosophy at Paris Nanterre University, later completing a master's degree in public affairs at Sciences Po and graduating from the École nationale d'administration in 2004. Emmanuel Jean-Michel Frédéric Macron ( French: born 21 December 1977) is a French politician who has been serving as the president of France since.