At 43 years old, senior official passed through the town hall of Paris and the private, the new director of Sciences Po, named by decree Friday, conducts a dazzling and eclectic career, marked on the left.
At ENA, he counted among the “Beautiful People”, this band of friends, followers of jokes potaches, which composed among other Gaspard Gantzer (former adviser of François Hollande), Sébastien Jallet (Cabinet director of Marlène Schiappa, Minister Delegate to Citizenship), Sibyl Petitjean (who became Sibyle Veil and CEO of Radio France) and Emmanuel Macron. The Sobriquet, chosen by students of the Promotion Léopold Sédar Senghor (2001-2004), mocked the stained skull of Parisianism which emerged from the expression of these young people. Close to the Strasbourg school, in the district of the small France, the clique then passes long evenings at the academy of beer, to drink, sing and eat flambé pies.
Twenty years later, Mathias ViCherat takes office as Director of Sciences Po and Director of the National Foundation of Political Science (FNSP) Monday, November 22, with a compelling mission: Closing the painful episode of “L ‘ Olivier Duhamel case “. In January 2021, accused of sexual assault on his saint-sank, the Politist resigned from the presidency of the FNSP. In February, inclusive by having kept the secret, the director of Sciences Po, Frederick Mion, did the same. Breeding by the controversy – As in 2012 after the death, in New York, his iconic director Richard Desoosals -, the institution does not aspire to turn the page, reconnect with his ambition.
The ambition, it is precisely what the 33-year-old director, dubbed by almost 80% of the votes in the two leadership councils on 9 and 10 November. A Decree of 19 November signed From the hand of the Promo Judople who has become President of the Republic seals his Arrival St. Guillaume. A new professional life opens for this touch-all that has already chained no less than six positions in seventeen years of career. “I am not surprised that he has this comet course because he goes from experience in experience by need of challenges. Mathias is a hyperactive engaged and passionate. At Sciences Po, he found a challenge to his measure,” says From him his friend from ENA, Sibyl Veil.
His longest experience, he acquired it to the city of Paris between 2010 and 2016, as Cabinet of Bertrand Delanoë then Anne Hidalgo. Tour triangle, Dominical work, redesign of the boroughs … In a role of “assembling”, as described by its CV (Mathias Viherat does not wish to speak for the moment), it is on the front line to carry out conciliacula – notably Within the Paris Council, where the opposition is lively -, as well as to manage crises, such as the welcome of refugees. The “Dircab” negotiates directly on the ground when he goes to the disused barracks of Château-Landon, where 127 African migrants are entrenched in June 2015. After five hours of discussion, he obtains that everyone is relocated in Hosting centers. At the November 2015 attacks, he is at Battaclan twenty minutes after taking hostages. Following up with difficult weeks within the municipal “crisis cell” which he took the head.
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