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Laurent Vallet

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Laurent Vallet
Born1969 (age 54–55)
France
Alma materHEC Paris
Sciences Po
ENA
OccupationCEO of Institut national de l'audiovisuel

Laurent Vallet, (born 1969) is a French businessman.[1]

CEO of the Institut national de l'audiovisuel since May 2015, he was reappointed to this position for a new term on May 20, 2020, in the Council of Ministers.[2] He previously headed the Institut pour le financement du cinéma et des industries culturelles (IFCIC) for thirteen years.

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A graduate of Sciences Po (1992, Public Service section) and HEC Paris (1991), Laurent Vallet is a former student of ENA (René Char promotion). He left in 1995 as a civil administrator and joined the general management of the Treasury. In 1999, he was assigned to the financial director of France Télévisions. In 2001 he finally joined the office of the Minister of the Economy, Laurent Fabius, where he followed the issues of culture, audiovisual and press companies.[3]

The following year, he was appointed general director of the Institut pour le financement du cinéma et des industries culturelles (IFCIC), where he remained for thirteen years. In June 2013, the Minister of Culture, Aurélie Filippetti, tasked him with writing a report on relations between producers and television channels.[4]

In March 2014, when Mathieu Gallet left for Radio France, he ran for president of the Institut national de l'audiovisuel (INA). Agnès Saal is then preferred.[5] In April 2015, the latter resigned and Laurent Vallet was then appointed to succeed her by decree of the following May 21.[6]

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