I wanted to direct me to education or health

Health Minister Roselyne Bachelot said of her that she "embodies the defence of public service" and praises "habit of social dialogue". One of his predecessors, Rose-Marie Van Lerberghe, saw his appointment a "good choice" (1). Trade unions pipent word on medical inexperience, that is, in this case, to provisionally bury the hatchet. Newly appointed Director of the AP - HP (Assistance publique-Hôpitaux in Paris), Mireille Faugère was, at the bottom, hope better induction before be dropped in the large heated bath of the Parisian hospital reform. The task will be arduous, the Contracting Party agrees. All, or almost, is to resume: strategic plan "which should better put the AP - HP in its Environment Council of Ile-de-France, in the territories," personal to regain confidence, the mandarins to convince, to achieve savings... A challenge to the extent of this fierce worker that places the coolness to the Pantheon of management qualifications, so as to have become over the years a real expert of crisis management.

His reputation, Mireille Faugère, due to a technological feat that there is nothing medical. It is, in the eyes of all and no doubt for some time yet, "Madam TGV". Thirty-year career at SNCF, during which this Corrézienne of fifty-four years old, mother of two children, climbed all levels, through all the included-y trades the least feminized-, marketing to switch positions, of the direction of a train station to the Sncf (2000-2002) and passenger France Europe.

The desire to serve the public

Project leader TGV Mediterranean (1986-1991), Director of the Montparnasse train station at the beginnings of the Atlantic TGV, she has been at the forefront of the launch of all TGV lines. "I arrived at the SNCF in 1979." I was looking for a job in the public sector, and it was the first company to respond to my request for employment and to me while I was pregnant. But then I got very lucky. The TGV project came in 1981 and I followed this activity throughout my career. It is a little baby! "These are my greatest moments of professional happiness," she says.

Turn the rail page, of course, but remain in what it considers "noble", the defence of public service. "I wanted to direct me to education or health." But I also wanted to be boss. "These two aspects are important to me, this is why I have CET sector public service", provides. So is health. More or less quiet corridors of the TGV to the ferment of the emergency services, there are a whole world... that Mireille Faugère is unknown. Since a few weeks the novice catch with this own good Alumni bulimia. It iterates through the hospitals, take the pulse of a profession which, said, "felt abused". "". I am a woman of contact, I need to feel things to lead... ", insists. First impressions that, already, give the "the". "There are similarities between the SNCF and the AP - HP: the desire to serve the public, the need for progress in quality processes to improve performance." "Our duty, it will be to improve the hospital so that the patient remains the least possible". Ambitious paradox.