From Wall Street to the Northern Districts of Marseille. Three places, three crises: trading floor, monastery, and public housing are the places that Henry Quinson, the trader turned monk, has known in the past 20 years. Three symbolic places of our relationship with money, God, and others. Globalization is a transformative process often analyzed as a triple crisis: financial, religious, and social.
Henry Quinson was born on March 8, 1961, in Neuilly-sur-Seine. An alumnus of Saint-Jean de Passy school, a graduate of the Université Panthéon-Sorbonne and Sciences Po Paris, he was an executive on the trading floor of Indosuez Bank, benefiting from specialized training in England and on Wall Street. He taught foreign exchange techniques in graduate programs at the faculties of Aix-en-Provence and Bordeaux as well as at the Paris Institute of Political Studies.
In 1989, he joined the monastery of Tamié in Savoie, where he undertook the Cistercian novitiate and began his theology studies with the Catholic Faculty of Strasbourg. In 1997, he founded the Fraternité Saint Paul in Marseille, with Karim De Broucker, a community focused on prayer, work, and hospitality with a strong commitment to educational support. He was in charge of it for fourteen years (1997-2010) until the rehabilitation of the district.
Henry Quinson is currently a member of the association Loger Marseille Jeunes and a partner of the CIS Foundation for “Professional Flight” scholarships. After publishing “Praying 15 Days with Christophe Lebreton,” his autobiographical account “City Monk, From Wall Street to the Northern Districts of Marseille” reached the general public.
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