Mathieu Laine

In this capacity, he created a course entitled "Thinking Freedom in the 21st Century".

Mathieu Laine is a member of the editorial board of the journal Commentaire, of the Mont Pèlerin Society (MPS), an international society of liberal intellectuals founded by Friedrich Hayek in 1947, and of Le Siècle.

Mathieu Laine (born April 9, 1975) is a French entrepreneur and intellectual.

He is the founder and head of Altermind, a boutique consultancy firm based in Paris, London, Brussels and Berlin.

He is an affiliate professor at Sciences Po Paris.

He is the author of many essays on liberalism and works as an editorialist for the French weekly political magazines Le Point and Le Figaro.

He is a member of the team of the programme L'Esprit public on France Culture and author of a dozen essays and a musical tale.

He chairs the Coppet Institute, a think-tank defending the French liberal heritage.

Son and grandson of doctors, Mathieu Laine joined in the 1990s the Idées action (Ideas-Action) movement of Alain Madelin, Minister of Enterprises and Economic Development in 1993 and 1995, then Minister of Economy and Finance in 1995.

He became head of Idées-Actions' Youth Department and, in this capacity, participated in Jacques Chirac's presidential campaign in 1995.

He holds a certificate in the legal profession, a DEA in business law from the University of Paris II Panthéon-Assas and graduated from Sciences Po in 2001 (major in Finance).

Mathieu Laine taught business law at the University of Paris II Panthéon-Assas from 2001 to 2005, then from 2006, introduction to law in the team of Professor Marie-Anne Frison-Roche; in 2008, he created an Introduction to Liberal Thinking seminar at Sciences Po.

Mathieu Laine was a corporate lawyer from 2001 to 2007.

He then worked at Bredin Prat, before joining Brandford-Griffith6.

In 2002, Laine published an open letter to the then French Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin about his « cent jours » as head of the cabinet.

In April 2005, after serving as Deputy Director of the Turgot Institute, he joined the Board of Directors of the Association for Economic Freedom and Social Progress (ALEPS).

In April 2005, after having been deputy director of the Turgot Institute, he joined the board of directors of the Association for Economic Freedom and Social Progress (ALEPS) in 2014.

Mathieu Laine created Altermind in 2007.

It is a boutique consultancy whose integrated global team of business advisors and academic experts provides business leaders with tailored, multi-faceted and usable strategic advice.

Altermind’s unique methodology provides companies with an innovative tool to help them succeed in today’s complex and fast-changing business environment.

In the past, he has written in several major media, including Les Echos, Le Monde, L'Express, with appearances as a weekly columnist for Le Figaro-Magazine (weekly column Vrai Faux? which becameC'est pourtant vrai! between 2007 and 2010), in L'Opinion the year it was launched, and in Challenges during the 2017 presidential campaign.

Mathieu Laine became an advisor to the Foundation for Political Innovation in 2009.

He leads the reflection on the subject of growth10.

Between 2009 and 2011, he becomes an advisor to the Foundation for Political Innovation.

In 2014, Mathieu Laine moved to London and created Altermind's British office, Altermind UK, now headed by Arabella Phillimore.

Since the launch of Altermind, Mathieu Laine has advised several executives of major companies, including Carrefour, Vivendi, Suez, Orange, Crédit Agricole, Danone, Facebook, Airbnb, Prada, AXA, Total, L'Oréal, Nestlé, and the Principality of Monaco.

He advises several executives such as Alexandre Bompard, Vincent Bolloré, Stéphane Richard, Yannick Bolloré, Philippe Knoche, and Augustin de Romanet.

According to an article in Les Echos, Mathieu Laine proposes with his firm Altermind an innovative model of strategic consulting, by constituting "an ad hoc team for each mission, generally commissioned at the highest level of the company", "by bringing together consultants with academics likely to provide original solutions based on their latest research"; his firm has a network of 300 academics, supplied via "a database developed with in-house AI tools which enables the academic world to be scanned in order to approach new profiles".

Among Altermind’s achievements, "to have had the merger between FNAC and Darty accepted by succeeding in including online sales in the reference market considered by the Competition Authority" - the newspaper Les Echos specifies: "professors from Dauphine, HEC, Berkeley and MIT were solicited" - as well as behavioural economics skills and the elaboration of an opinion survey thanks to the participation of more than 22,000 respondents".

Another mission relayed in the media, on behalf of the BPCE bank, was the development of an algorithmic and data strategy "to put it at the service of its advisers rather than using it to replace them" and a mission on the "future of work".

Laurent Mignon, Chairman of the Management Board of the French bank, testifies: "Altermind puts people you are not used to seeing in front of you and offers you an astonishing depth of reflection".

In 2018, he was appointed Affiliate Professor of Political Humanities at Sciences Po.

The lecture he gives in 2019 aims to answer the question "Can we save the free world? ». In 2020, he offers students the course "Literature and Freedom".

He became a columnist Les Echos in September 2020.

Altermind's partners include Aurélie Jean (in charge of Algorithms and Data), Erwan Le Noan (in charge of Regulations and Antitrust), Benoit Tirion (in charge of Regulations, Infrastructure and Transport), Florian Ingen-Ousz (in charge of Strategy and M&A); Altermind announces the arrival of Anne Dufermont, who has had a career at L'Oréal and Chanel in particular, at the beginning of 2020, to open and manage its Brussels office.

In July 2020, Altermind announces the arrival of former British Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne.

He will chair an Advisory Committee responsible for providing the firm with ideas and representing it to help it export its approach abroad.

George Osborne said: "the model is interesting: the university and the boards are two worlds too far apart".

Mathieu Laine has been a regular contributor to the media scene for almost twenty years.

Today, he is a columnist for Le Figaro and Le Point, and will return to Les Echos as Essais columnist in September 2020.