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Laurene Fertin
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Oct 11, 2024 at 3:52 p.m.
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He won’t be around for long. Philippe Gustin, prefect of the Brittany region since August 2023, is replaced by Amaury of Saint-Quentin. A decision taken during the Council of Ministers which was held on Thursday October 10, 2024.
The former prefect of Brittany is leaving for the Ministry of Agriculture, where he will become chief of staff to Annie Genevard, new Minister of Agriculture.
Prefect of Corsica
Officiating in Corse, precisely in South CorsicaAmaury de Saint-Quentin is therefore appointed prefect of the Brittany region, prefect of the Western defense and security zone and prefect of Ille-et-Vilaine.
He was previously prefect from Ardèche from 2009 to 2011, from Guadeloupe from 2011 to 2013 then prefect of Reunion from 2017 to 2019; of Val-d’Oise until 2022 before joining la Corse on February 15 of the same year.
The senior official was also maire of the municipality of Putanges-Pont-Écrepin (Orne) from 1995 to 2001.
Born in Australia
Amaury de Saint-Quentin was born in Australia and spent his youth in Nouméa, in New Caledonia.
After studying right and of political science, graduated from the Panthéon-Assas and San Francisco universities, he began a brief career in the private sector at the Society for General Electrical and Mechanical Applications (SAGEM).
Project manager at the office of Jacques Toubon at the town hall of the 13th arrondissement of Paris from 1990 to 1993, then by Édouard Balladur in 1995, it branched off in public life in Normandie, in Orne, where it becomes vice-president of the general council of Orne in 1998. Ten years later, he was appointed prefect of Ardèche.
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