Early Life and Education
After following a graduate degree in economics and a diploma from the Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris in Paris (Sciences Po), Albert Merlin began his career at Rexeco, an economic and business forecasting institute associated with the French Federation of Business. He subsequently joined the Compagnie de Saint-Gobain, world's leading producer of glass and building materials, first as an industrial economist, then as ]
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