François Roussely (9 January 1945 – 11 January 2023) was a French government official and magistrate.

Biography

After his studies at the

École nationale d'administration The (; ENA; ) was a French ''grande école'', created in 1945 by the then Provisional Government of the French Republic, provisional chief of government Charles de Gaulle and principal co-author of the Constitution of France, 1958 Constitution M ...

, Roussely became an auditor in 1978 and subsequently became a referendum advisor at the

Cour des Comptes The ''Cour des Comptes'' (, "Court of Accounts") is France's supreme audit institution, under French law an administrative court. As such, it is independent from the legislative and executive branches of the French Government. However, the 1946 ...

in 1982 in the cabinet of

Minister of the Interior An interior minister (sometimes called a minister of internal affairs or minister of home affairs) is a cabinet official position that is responsible for internal affairs, such as public security, civil registration and identification, emergency ...

Gaston Defferre Gaston Defferre (14 September 1910 – 7 May 1986) was a French Socialist politician. He served as mayor of Marseille for 33 years until his death in 1986. He was minister for overseas territories in Guy Mollet’s socialist government in 1956 ...

. He held various positions in Defferre's successor,

Pierre Joxe Pierre Joxe, KBE (; born 28 November 1934) is a former French Socialist politician and has been a member of the Constitutional Council of France between 2001 and 2010. A graduate of the École nationale d'administration, he joined the Court ...

's cabinet as well, including his service as Chief Executive Officer of the from 1989 to 1991 and as Secretary-General for the Administration of the Ministry of Armed Forces from 1991 to 1997. Additionally, he served on the nuclear energy committee of the French Atomic Energy Commission from 1991 to 1997 and was director of the civil and military cabinet of

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from 1997 to 1998. From 1998 to 2004, Roussely was president of

Électricité de France Électricité de France SA (; ), commonly known as EDF, is a French multinational corporation, multinational electric utility company owned by the government of France. Headquartered in Paris, with €139.7 billion in sales in 2023, EDF ope ...

and was later CEO of

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in France until 2009. He also served as Vice-President of Credit Suisse in Europe. Roussely died on 11 January 2023, at the age of 78.

Decorations

*Commander of the

Legion of Honour The National Order of the Legion of Honour ( ), formerly the Imperial Order of the Legion of Honour (), is the highest and most prestigious French national order of merit, both military and Civil society, civil. Currently consisting of five cl ...

(2012)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Roussely, Francois 1945 births 2023 deaths Socialist Party (France) politicians People from Dordogne Électricité de France people École nationale d'administration alumni Judges of the Court of Audit (France) Commanders of the Legion of Honour French chief executives