Mathieu Laine

Mathieu Laine, born in 1975, is a French entrepreneur and intellectual. Close to Emmanuel Macron and François Fillon, he heads the company Altermind. He co-heads with Emile Servan-Schreiber, Hypermind, a prediction market company. Author of many essays on liberalism, he teaches Economics and Political Philosophy at Sciences Po in Paris. He currently lives in London.

Trained as a lawyer (Master in Business Law from University Paris II Panthéon-Assas) and a graduate from Science Po, Mathieu Laine first taught Business Law at Paris II then Private law at Sciences Po, where he now conducts the « Introduction to Liberal Philosophy » course. By the end of 2007, he founded the strategy consultancy firm, Altermind. He moved to London in 2014 and launched the English office of Altermind, Altermind UK. In 2015, with Emile Servan-Schreiber, he co-founded Hypermind, a prediction market company.

Essayist, he is an editorial writer for the French magazines Le Point and Challenges.

After working for Alain Madelin between 18 and 21 years-old, he ran the Turgot Institute. He was then appointed member of the Board of Directors of the Association for Economic Freedom and Social Progress in 2005.

He regularly publishes liberal-oriented opinions in the French press such as Le Point, Challenges, Le Figaro, Le Monde, L'Express ou Les Echos. From 2007 to 2010, he held the weekly column « Vrai Faux ? » which later became « C’est pourtant vrai !» in Le Figaro Magazine. He also contributed to the magazine L’Opinion on its launch year.

In 2006, he published La Grande nurserie : en finir avec l’infantilisation des Français(pocket edition, expanded in 2010) where he denounces the «  nanny State » and calls for a society founded on freedom, responsibility and trust versus a society based on control and regulations.

In 2009, he published Post-politique, Edgar Faure Award as best political essay.

In 2012, he headed the publication of the Dictionnaire du Libéralisme by Editions Larousse. This book has been honored with the award « prix Édouard-Bonnefous » of the Académie des Sciences Morales et Politiques. Mathieu Laine mobilized 63 economists, lawyers, philosophers, sociologists, psychiatrists, historians to contribute to this dictionary, for the purpose of presenting « for the first time a complete overview of liberalism », allowing the readers to « discover, behind the word « liberal », a large range of schools and views ».

In 2013, Mathieu Laine signed La France Adolescente with Patrice Huerre, a psychiatrist specialized in adolescence, published by Editions JC Lattès.

In January 2016, Mathieu Laine published the Dictionnaire amoureux de la liberté, a genuine ode to freedom in all its forms, notably in literature, philosophy, music and painting.

In October 2016, he wrote the foreword of the Discours (« Speeches ») of Margaret Thatcher in French (Editions Les Belles Lettres).