Etienne deffarges biography

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Etienne Deffarges is the author of “Untangling the USA: the Cost of Complexity, and What Can Be Done About It,” published in June 2018 by Routledge, Taylor & Francis.

This book looks at a number of critical sectors of our economy, such as health care, energy, finance, government and sports, and has forewords written by former Secretary of State George Shultz and former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle.

Etienne has lived in San Francisco since 1985 and became a U.S. citizen in 1993. He first discovered the Bay Area when studying for his MS in Civil Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley, upon graduating as an aeronautical engineer from the ISAE – Sup’Aero in Toulouse, France.

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