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Jean-Paul Philippot (born June 26, 1960) is the current administrator-general of

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(RTBF) and a former president on the

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(EBU).

Background

Born in

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, Belgium, on 26 June 1960, Philippot graduated in Commercial Engineering from the

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of the

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in 1984.

Career

Philippot was appointed administrator general of the RTBF in 2002 and immediately embarked on a policy of retrenchment and centralisation recommended by

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, which led to strikes and protests. In December 2015 the former editor-in-chief of the RTBF television news accused him of being in the pocket of the Socialist party. In March 2016 Philippott was reported to be the best-paid public employee in French-speaking Belgium, and the only one whose annual pay exceeded the statutory maximum of 250,000 euros. In April 2016 he told a parliamentary committee on media that the RTBF was not top-heavy with managers and they were not overpaid. He was elected as the president of the EBU at the general meeting in July 2008 held in

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, Hungary. In 2016 he was re-elected for his fifth consecutive term.

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