Corinne Maier (born 7 December 1963) is a Swiss-born, French psychoanalyst, economist, and best-selling writer. She is best known for being the author of Bonjour paresse, a cynical critique of French corporate culture. In 2016, Maier was named as one of the BBC 100 Women.
Maier was born on 7 December 1963 in Geneva, Switzerland. She attended National Foundation of Political Sciences, studying economics and international relations, later earning a doctorate in psychoanalysis. The author of Bonjour paresse [Hello Laziness], Maier is a satirist who has been compared to Scott Adams.[1] She became employed by Électricité de France as an economist c. 1992.[2] In 2004, she wrote Bonjour paresse, which reached the number one ranking on Amazon's French-language bestseller list.[1] In 2016, she was chosen as one of BBC's 100 Women.[3]
Maier is Jewish and is the mother of two children, a son and a daughter.[4]