With Sébastien Lecornu in Matignon, Philippe Gustin, a chief of workers like no different | EUROtoday
Sébastien Lecornu, appointed Tuesday September 9 within the Prime Minister night, didn’t even need to ask Philippe Gustin to direct his cupboard in Matignon. “For him as for me, it was obvious that I would follow him if he was named”,, assures this one with the World. After seven years of companionship on the Eure Departmental Council (2015-2017), on the Overseas Ministry (2020-2022), then on the Ministry of the Armed Forces (2022-2023), the Lecornu-Gustin tandem is “Very well established at work in common,, attests to an old prefect. They know each other by heart “.
Philippe Gustin’s journey is atypical. This son of a 65-year-old soldier, from a line of Bouilleurs de Cru de Fougerolles (Haute-Saône), was first a instructor, in France after which in Germany-as a part of the Franco-German youth workplace. Deputy Director of Courses on the French Institute of Budapest earlier than the autumn of the Wall, then cultural attaché to the French Embassy in Austria, he joined the National School of Administration (ENA, Promotion Nelson-Mandela, the place he rubbed shoulders with Laurent Wauquiez) in 1999.
After a traditional starting of a traditional profession on the prefecture (Nièvre, Mayotte, Isère …), he joined, underneath Nicolas Sarkozy, the workplaces of Christine Lagarde (Minister of Agriculture then of the Economy), then of Luc Chatel (trade then National Education). Ambassador to Romania, from 2012 to 2014, he left Bucharest “Crying”remembers this lover of the Mitteleuropa, returned by the Romanian authorities as a result of it was “Right”.
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