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Eva Joly MEP

Member of the European Parliament
for France
Incumbent
Assumed office 
2009
Born 5 December 1943 (1943-12-05) (age 66)
Nationality French
Political party The Greens–European Free Alliance

Eva Joly (born December 5, 1943 as Gro Eva Farseth) is a Norwegian-born French magistrate. Born in Grünerløkka, Oslo, she moved to Paris at 18 to work as an au pair. There, against the will of the parents, she married the son of the family, Pascal Joly (now deceased).

Working as a secretary, she took her legal education at night school. Joly specialised in financial affairs, and in 1990 she joined the High Court of Paris as an investigating judge.

Here she quickly made a mark with her tireless crusade against corruption, in particular taking on, among others, former minister Bernard Tapie and the bank Crédit Lyonnais. Her most famous case, however, was that of France’s leading oil company – Elf Aquitaine. In the face of death threats, she carried on the case to uncover several cases of fraud.

In 2002, Reader's Digest named her European of the Year. In Norway, a film on her life is currently in planning. Filming is supposed to start in late 2006/early 2007, with the working title Sophisticated Men. The 2006 French film L'Ivresse du pouvoir (English title "Comedy of Power", though more properly translated as "power madness") is loosely based on Eva Joly.


As of March 10 2009, Joly is employed as a special adviser by the Icelandic government to investigate the possibility that white-collar crime may have played a part in the 2008–2009 Icelandic financial crisis.[1][2]. Eva enjoys enormous widespread popularity of the majority of the Icelandic public and has become an icon in the battle against possible frauds by the banking elite.

On 10th of June 2009, she was a guest at a popular talk show in Iceland - and implied that she would quit being an advisor to the Icelandic government if they did not do more to help the investigation. [3] [4]

On 7th June 2009, Joly was elected as a French member of the European Parliament on the Ile de France "Europe Écologie" list, on which she was 2nd to Daniel Cohn-Bendit. She is chair of the Committee on Development.

Contents

Published works

  • Notre affaire à tous, 2000
  • Korrupsjonsjeger: Fra Grünerløkka til Palais de Justice, 2001
  • Est-ce dans ce monde-là que nous voulons vivre?, 2003
  • May 9, 2001 op-ed in Le Monde, signed with Renaud van Ruymbeke, Bernard Bertossa and other European magistrates or attorney generals, titled "The black boxes of financial globalization", about the Clearstream scandal (Clearstream has been qualified as a "bank of banks" and accused of being a major platform of global money laundering and tax evasion)

Affiliations

Joly sits on the advisory board of the Washington-based think-tank Global Financial Integrity.

References

  1. ^ Eva Joly adviser to Icelandic justice minister [1]
  2. ^ Eva Joly named "special adviser" (in Icelandic) [2]
  3. ^ http://www.dv.is/frettir/2009/6/10/ekki-nog-ad-valtyr-lysi-sig-vanhaefan/
  4. ^ http://eyjan.is/blog/2009/06/10/eva-joly-oanaegd-osatt-fyrir-seinagang-mala-ihugar-ad-haetta-afskiptum-af-islenska-hruninu/

External links

Members of the European Parliament 2009–2014
Category · European Union







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