I be followed many exciting issues including the Caracas metro he recalled

It is "transverse" experience of ministerial and prefectures, which he knows all the ins and outs, which explains his appointment to the Presidency of the national Institute of advanced studies of security and justice (Inhesj), believes whether the person concerned, Michel Cadot. In fact, the current prefect of the Brittany region undertook a journey without fault in the state machine. Born in Suresnes in 1954, the son of an engineer of the SNCF was fed milk the best educational institutions of the Republic: secondary studies at the lycée Charlemagne, preparatory classes at Henri-IV, Essec, IEP of Paris, of public law at Assas and finally the ENA, which he left in 1980. It is therefore part of this famous promotion Voltaire which are also from Ségolène Royal, tawny François Hollande and Dominique de Villepin, among other major of politics. "Their choice was not mine." "I feel perfectly comfortable in my role of servant of the State", says the official affable but reserved.

A diverse journey

After beginnings in the Oise and the Cantal, the young enarque crossed the Atlantic in 1985 and found commercial Counsellor at the Embassy of France in the Venezuela. "I be followed many exciting issues, including the Caracas metro", he recalled. Back on the old Continent in 1988 as sub-prefect of Saint-Julien-en-Genevois, near his family land of Annecy where he owns a cottage, he is recruited the following year by the Elf group to the position of chargé de mission to the Director of international trade and maritime transport. Quickly promoted to Secretary General of Elf Trading, it ended yet his career in the private sector as early as 1993. "I have much difficulty." I think that I would have remained there if I was proposed a responsibility in Africa, for example. "I am of those who love the land," he said. Field, it will be at Béziers, where he was appointed sous-préfet, before returning with wife and children - they are now 5, aged seventeen to twenty-seven years - in the capital to take the direction of the cabinet of Raymond-Max Aubert, another former of the "Voltaire" promotion, to the Secretariat of State for rural development. First cabinet of short-lived experience: collateral victim of the wave which carried off "Sprayskirts", Raymond - Max Aubert is thanked and recasé to the Datar... where Michel Cadot follows as Deputy.

In turn prefect of the Meuse, Martinique and the Maine-et-Loire from 1998 to 2004, he found then corporate Palace with the direction of the cabinet of Dominique Bussereau to Agriculture until 2006 and then a passage to Matignon as Adviser to Dominique de Villepin. Ephémère prefect of Limousin in 2007, he directed over the next two years the offices of Michel Barnier to Agriculture and Michele Alliot-Marie indoors, before Cape Town to Rennes and Brittany Prefecture. A function that it will naturally continue to exercise at the same time to the Presidency of the Inhesj, this new organization born in October last the merger of the national Institute of high studies of security (Inhes) and the Institute of studies and research on the safety of enterprises (Ierse). "It is exciting to combine these two visions of the State: the local vision via the prefecture and the national vision via the Institute", welcomed.