J5 in one minute
J5 advises governments, international organizations, large companies, trade federations and regulated professions or prominent personalities on large-scale ventures – diplomatic, political, commercial, industrial or financial.
- a team of specialists in political and public strategy, former ministers both French and foreign, former officials in the senior branches of the civil service (diplomats, State counsellors, inspectors of finance, etc.)
- a network of several hundred experts and companies that can be mobilized, a circle of privileged relations with a large number of prominent personalities the world over and major ventures pursued in 80 countries, more particularly in Europe, in Africa and in the Middle-East.
Who we are
High-level ventures which prominent public or private actors undertake are subjected to multiple success factors and, conversely, risks of failure. Their complexity is compounded by the acceleration of social and geopolitical transformations, by the persuasive and mobilizing force of multiform information and by the ongoing legal creativity of the international system on different scales, national, bilateral and multilateral.
Today, strategic and high-level ventures benefit from a range of leading-edge tools and emerging technologies running from viral marketing to artificial intelligence as well as data mining and cyber-lobbying, expert systems and automated publishing.
So, mastering a global influencing strategy requires both a clear vision of the synergies between the technical means and a keen sense of societal trends, of the political balance of power, of economic variants and multicultural sensibilities. Consequently, this strategy must be able to deal 360° and in real time with all of a venture’s parameters, including managing costs, deadlines and unforeseen circumstances.
At such a level of complexity, of volatility and of stakes, only experience can guarantee that mastery.
To address these stakes, J5 is a hub comprising:
- a team of specialists in political and public strategy, former ministers both French and foreign, former officials in the senior branches of the civil service (diplomats, State counsellors, inspectors of finance, etc.)
- a network of several hundred experts and companies that can be mobilized, a circle of privileged relations with a large number of prominent personalities the world over and major ventures pursued in 80 countries, more particularly in Europe, in Africa and in the Middle-East.
We have over 30 years’ experience in strategic ventures and the practice of all associated professions and tools. Thus, to the creativity of our strategies and fire power of our tools we can add a matchless guarantee of execution which only a small number of professionals in the world can claim.
What we do
Experience, key component of strategic ventures
J5 offers a high-level and tailored service through an « out-of-the-box » approach resting on a pluri-disciplinarity of professions, in order to accompany its clients in all the challenges they face (political, economic, professional, personal).
Accordingly, J5 has developed a multi-intelligence, integrated platform which allows us to play a part in the most complex and difficult cases, upstream (planning and anticipating) as well as downstream (reacting to constraints faced by our clients, managing crises).
Consulting and strategic operations
Today, institutions (governments, international organizations) and businesses face an increasingly uncertain political, economic, military, legal and normative environment, one undergoing profound transformation. Power now lies in holding strategic information and using it advisedly through controlled communication and an appropriate mobilization of varied networks.
To its clients, J5 thus proposes accompanying them cross-disciplinarily through strategic consulting mingling different information-gathering approaches and global political assistance. Our professions’ interdependency ensures our action’s full success:
- Advising governments, international organizations, large companies, trade federations and regulated professions or prominent personalities on large-scale ventures – diplomatic, political, commercial, industrial or financial.
- Advising on institutional relations and public affairs : defining strategic axes and presenting arguments for our clients, allowing them better to position themselves vis-à-vis institutions in Paris (government, parliament) and in Brussels (European commission, European parliament).
- Advising on strategic communication (multi-channel): digital (e-lobbying, e-reputation, social media), press relations, crisis management…
- Accompanying States in formalizing their official candidacies in the domains of culture, sports, diplomacy, economics and finance
- Assisting candidates to an election: framing and organizing election campaigns (political, administrative, professional, trade union or of associations…) in France as well as abroad
- Multichannel monitoring and legal research for information
- Economic and cultural diplomacy: assisting our clients in their international deployment bringing to them our expertise and political-diplomatic networks
- Network engineering : network-deciphering and searching for economic partners to answer to the needs of States or accompanying businesses in their economic development
- Mastering the Internet offensively and defensively : cyber-activism and counter-activism, image auditing, digital monitoring and mapping, investigating and fighting forgery on the web, delegated publishing of online books and media
- Legal counseling and security (relying on a network of specialized attorneys and jurists)
- Integrating the legal dimension upstream: accompanying States in their reforms (institutional, economic, social, financial, cultural, etc.), conforming advocated and implemented reforms to international standards, legally validating and normatively framing change management ;
- Carrying out missions on ethics and compliance, audits on legal security according to international and internal standards ;
- Providing legal counsel for intergovernmental international negotiations or among private actors and legal security for public-private partnerships ;
- Providing expertise in digital law and Internet law.
- Engineering missions and pre-planning studies: analysis and diagnosis ; identification and definition of issues, needs and objectives ; quantitative, qualitative, legal and financial studies ; recommendations etc.
Our network
We have at our disposal a vast, sturdy, eclectic network, French and foreign, which has strengthened in the course of three decades of practice. According to the case’s complexity, J5 proposes to its clients collaborating with other partners so as to mobilize all useful expertises (professions of economic intelligence, digital influencing and online mobilization, cybersecurity, attorneys, etc.) and form a team adapted to their needs.
J5 has endowed itself with several potent partnership poles in domains critical to the indispensable securing of strategic ventures’ success in a world of ceaselessly-proliferating complexities and risks :
- Similarly, J5 relies on a network of very high-level jurists specialized in its activities – attorneys, law professors, former judges, former members of the Constitutional Council and State Council. This network of experts accompanies our clients by supplying them a legally operational service. This quality counsel relies in certain cases and for certain countries on local personalities, historians, sociologists able to analyze and understand the country’s distinctive features. For the first time, law is no longer an exogenous component of a consulting service : it is integrated upstream to give it a normative dimension, efficient and legally guaranteed.
- Finally, J5 can count on a large network of economists and experts in the senior branches of the civil service (Inspection of Finances), international organizations (World Bank, IMF) or from the largest financial audit groups worldwide or international strategic consultancies (KPMG, EY, Roland Berger) to accompany our institutional clients in their change management or their economic reforms, needed to adapt to the new state of the world economy.
Our values and commitments
Confidentiality, detail-orientation, proactive engagement, creative strategy and diversity of expertise are at the heart of J5’s identity.
J5 is independent of any affiliation and political objective. Playing a part in a sensitive area of activity, essentially within the framework of strategic missions, J5 commits to abiding by strict legal and ethical standards, ensuring that all its employees and partners act in full respect of the laws and regulations in force in the countries on which they operate.
Management
Gérard Askinazi
President & CEO
Founding president of J5, Gérard Askinazi is a specialist in public, political or corporate communication and in the organization of public events and large international conferences.
For over 30 years, he has advised States, institutions, companies and personalities as regards strategic positioning, image and visibility. Thus, he has taken part in numerous political campaigns on all continents and also worked for large groups in the world of industry and services.
Moreover, Gérard Askinazi has organized the great political and economic global gatherings, within the organizations he headed.
Notably, he participated for several years in the organization of the Davos World Economic Forum and those of New York, Amman and Sharm El Sheikh. He organized many events and conferences during the French presidency of the European Union as well as other prestigious occasions such as the World Policy Conference, the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin wall, the Global Sports Forum of Barcelona, the G20’s ministerial meetings.
He also organized the ceremonies inaugurating the new Suez Canal, the festivities of the UNESCO’s 70th anniversary, the Summit of the French-speaking world in Madagascar as well as the COP22 in Marrakech.
He cofounded the Forum Nouveau Monde in partnership with the OECD, which assembles the principal political and economic leaders.
Former vice-president world of Publicis Events then president of one of Havas-Euro RSCG’s subsidiaries, Gérard Askinazi was the founding president of Agence Publics and vice-president of the board of directors of Groupe ESL & Network.
He is counsellor for foreign trade of France and knight in the order of the Legion of Honor.