Irresistible Ascension of Mathias Viech at Sciences Po Management

The Parisian establishment has adorned the enarque of 43 years, previously Secretary General of Danone.

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If secret ballot votes could translate into the image, a hedge of honor would have risen to the passage from Mathias Vierat to the Cenacle of the two governance councils of Sciences Po, who drove the candidate of 43 years (by 21 votes in 28 and 19 votes on 23), Tuesday 9 and Wednesday 10 November.

The two other candidates, the CNRS Research Director, Christine Musselin, and the Deputy Head of the National Conservatory of Arts and Crafts (CNAM), Olivier Faron, did not collect on Wednesday, only three and a voice and, the day before, two voices each.

An enarque hunt the other at the head of the establishment of 14,000 students, 4,500 teachers (including nearly 300 permanent) and some 1,000 employees, who has just undergo a long crisis, the former director, Frederick Mion, having been forced to resign, on February 9, for concealed the accusations of incest targeting the Politologist Olivier Duhamel, President of the National Foundation of Political Science (FNSP). Unpublished since 1945, the Institute was deprived of both heads for two months until the historian of Art Laurence Bertrand Dorleac succeeds Olivier Duhamel, April 9th.

Through their votes, the advice of the Institute of Political Studies and the FNSP sent a message of hope to the address of a candidate whose professional experience did not suggest that he takes The reins of a higher education institution. This choice appears as an “aberration” for many academics, who were waiting for a coherence between the slogan posted by Sciences Po to be a “selective university of world rank research” and the reality of its governance, where the Academic profiles disappear.

“He cleared his remote handicap”

Past through the American Headhunter’s filter Russell Reynolds – Missioned by the Application Selection Board, Mathias ViCherat “impressed” the jury to each of the three decisive interviews. “The hearing has played as a truth effect, according to Laurence Bertrand Dorleac. The selection board has been empirical: one judges from the candidates and not from the theory.” Exit the rigidity of the criteria of the job description , where an ability to “anticipate developments in the higher education and research sector” as well as an “experience of liability in an establishment” were required.

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