Sciences Po Paris: Mathias Vicherat elected new director

The enarque will succeed Frédéric Mion, forced to resign on February 9 to have concealed the accusations of incest targeting the Politologist Olivier Duhamel.

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This time, the doors are open to it open, as if sciences Po was waiting for him: the enarque Mathias Viherat, 43, was elected by 19 votes by the Board of Directors of the National Foundation Political Sciences (FNSP), Wednesday, November 10th. He will succeed Frédéric Mion, forced to resign, on 9 February, for concealed the accusations of incest targeting the Politologist Olivier Duhamel, then President of the FNSP.

The day before, the oddness had been given to him by the Council of the Institute, with 21 votes on 28, a surprise coming from a substance predominantly composed of academics, which could not have been acquired to a candidate having no management experience in higher education and research. “He was going from afar, and his cost of entrance was very high, but he met more than 200 people to build his project, which he further improved during his oral performance,” said a member of the board. of the Institute, which brought him his voice, Tuesday, November 9.

Audition on Wednesday afternoon, the other two candidates still in the running, the sociologist and research director at the CNRS Christine Musselin and the historian and deputy head of the National Conservatory of Arts and Crafts (CNAM), Olivier Faron, N ‘ have collected respectively only three and one vote. The day before, each had only obtained two voices from the Council of the Institute.

“Very good public-private profile”

Former Sciences Po Student and then from the National School of Administration (ENA), Mathias Vierat is part of the Léopold-Sedar-Senghor promotion, the same as Emmanuel Macron. High official, he joins the body of the prefectoral in Picardie, then in Seine-Saint-Denis, before integrating the General Directorate of the National Police, the Paris City Hall, as Cabinet Director, then the SNCF, at post of Deputy Director General and, finally, the Danone Group. The October 1, he resigned from his duties as Secretary-General for Sustainable Development, Public Affairs, Communication, Security and Real Estate, to devote himself to his candidacy to Sciences Po.

After fourteen years at the service of the state and a public company, then two and a half years in the private sector, “Mathias Vierat has a very good public-private profile, which corresponds to the course of the students at their exit Studies, but also to that of Sciences Po teachers, who are permanent or public and private “, according to one of the board members. This mixed profile is also in the line of that of its predecessor, Frédéric Mion.

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