Jean-Louis Servan-Schreiber is a journalist of contemporary human, economic and social issues, in both the print and broadcast media. He is presently the chairman of the French monthly magazine Psychologies, and the author of nine books, the latest, "Vivre content" (2002, Albin Michel).

Previously, he was Chairman of the Groupe Expansion, which publishes several economic papers and magazines, among them the bi-monthly L'Expansion, the leading business magazine in France, launched by Jean-Louis Servan-Schreiber himself in 1967.

Jean-Louis Servan-Schreiber was born in 1937. He is the son of the journalist Emile Servan-Schreiber. After his Master's degree at the Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris, he began his career as a journalist with the business daily Les Echos in 1959, of which he soon became editor-in-chief.

In 1964, he moved on to assist the publisher of the news magazine L'Express.

By 1967 he was President and Chief Executive Officer of the entire Group Express, as well as President of Technic-Union, a joint-venture of L'Express and Mc Graw-hill.

In the early 1970s, he ran two French local newspapers, the Journal du centre and the Populaire du centre, and in 1975, he founded Lire, a monthly book review magazine.

For France's leading television network TF1, he produced and moderated the interview program Questionnaire from 1973-1981.

Jean-Louis Servan-Schreiber taught journalism at Stanford University in California in 1971.

He lives in Paris and has four children. His present wife, Perla, is Vice-President of Psychologies magazine and a writer.

Jean-Louis Servan-Schreiber is the author of nine books, including: "Le Pouvoir d'informer" (1972, Editions R. Laffont); "Questionnaire pour Demain" (1977, Editions Ramsay) ; "L'Art du Temps" (1983, Editions Fayard) ; "Le Métier de Patron" (1990, Editions Fayard); "Une vie en plus" with Joël de Rosnay and François de Closets (2005, Le Seuil).