Chantal Jouanno

About Chantal Jouanno

Chantal Jouanno obtained a BTS in international trade in Paris and started as an export assistant for the Africa and then Latin America zones in 1988 at Citroën, followed by an internship in the accounting department of the International Bank for West Africa between 1989 and 1990.

She then earned a master’s degree in economic and social administration from the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne and, after consulting Martine Aubry, was tasked with a report on cross-border labor for the Ministry of Labor and Employment in 1992.

In 1994, she was recruited by EDF to establish a social observatory. Then, graduating from Sciences-Po Paris, she entered the National School of Administration in 1997 (Cyrano de Bergerac promotion), from which she graduated in 1999 as a civil administrator at the Ministry of the Interior: sub-prefect, chief of staff to the prefect of Vienne and Poitou-Charentes, between 1999 and 2001.

Briefly an advisor for police reform to the central director of public security at the Ministry of the Interior in 2001, she became the same year chief of staff to the CEO of Coframi. She returned to the offices at Place Beauvau in 2002, as head of the office for the status and regulation of local personnel at the General Directorate of Local Authorities.

She was chosen by the incumbent minister, Nicolas Sarkozy, as a speechwriter starting in July 2002, while officially being responsible for communication with Michel Gaudin, the director general of the national police.

On the advice of Claude Guéant, she became interested in sustainable development, a field for which, along with road safety issues, she was appointed technical advisor to the minister’s cabinet in 2003.

When Nicolas Sarkozy left the Ministry of the Interior, she became, until 2006, his chief of staff and communication at the General Council of Hauts-de-Seine, where she was notably responsible for organizing public consultation to develop the five-year program of the General Council, and for establishing the first departmental council for sustainable development.

She then followed Nicolas Sarkozy to the Ministry of the Interior, as an advisor for sustainable development and participated in his presidential program. When he was elected President of the Republic in 2007, she was appointed sustainable development advisor at the Élysée, notably in charge of the negotiations for the Grenelle Environment.

She was appointed on February 6, 2008, as president of the Agency for the Environment and Energy Management (Ademe), and as an administrator of the National Agency for Radioactive Waste Management (ANDRA) on July 30 following.