Jacques Necker was a Genevan banker, financier and statesman who served as finance minister of France for Louis XVI. He was a reformer, but his innovations sometimes caused great discontent. Necker was a constitutional monarchist, a political economist, and a moralist, who wrote a severe critique of the new principle of equality before the law.
- Occupation
- politician, banker, writer, university teacher
- Position held
- Chief Minister of France, Minister of the Economy, Finances and Industry, minister resident, Controller-General of Finances
- Citizenship
- Republic of Geneva, France
- Born
- September 30, 1732
