He and his parents settled in Agadir , Morocco , in 1951 , but after the 1960 earthquake moved to Monaco , where his father practiced law . While the family was living in Monaco , Strauss-Kahn went to school at the Lycee Albert 1er . The family later returned to Paris , where he attended classes préparatoires at the Lycée Carnot . He graduated from HEC Paris in 1971 and from Sciences Po and the Paris Institute of Statistics in 1972 . He sat and failed the entrance examination for École nationale d'administration , but obtained a bachelor degree in public law , as well as a PhD and an '' agrégation '' ( 1977 ) in economics at the Université Paris X ( Nanterre )
1960 earthquake
1960 Agadir earthquake
Dominique Strauss-Kahn