Nicolas Revel, né Ricard (born 26 May 1966) is a French

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. He has been the

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's Chief of Staff between 3 July 2020 and May 2022. He was Assistant General Secretary of the President alongside

Emmanuel Macron Emmanuel Jean-Michel Frédéric Macron (; born 21 December 1977) is a French politician who has served as President of France and Co-Prince of Andorra since 2017. He was Ministry of Economy and Finance (France), Minister of Economics, Industr ...

from 2012 to 2014, then Director of the National Health Insurance Fund from 2014 to 2020.

Family

Nicolas Revel, born Ricard, is the son of

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Jean-François Revel Jean-François Revel (born Jean-François Ricard; 19 January 192430 April 2006) was a French philosopher, journalist, and author. A prominent public intellectual, Revel was a socialist in his youth but later became a prominent European propon ...

, born Ricard (1924–2006), and journalist

Claude Sarraute Claude Sarraute (24 July 1927 – 20 June 2023) was a French writer and journalist and columnist for ''Le Monde''. She was a recurring panelist on the humoristic radio show '' Les Grosses Têtes'' between 1984 and 1995 and from 2014 until her dea ...

(1927-2023). His maternal grandmother,

Nathalie Sarraute Nathalie Sarraute (; born Natalia Ilinichna Tcherniak (); – 19 October 1999) was a French writer and lawyer. She was nominated in 1969 for the Nobel Prize in Literature by Nobel Committee member Lars Gyllensten. Personal life Sarraute wa ...

(1900–1999), was a

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woman of

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n background who came to France as a child. On his mother's side, he has two half-brothers, Laurent and Martin, and a half-sister, Véronique. On his father's side, he has a half-sister and a half-brother, Ève and

Matthieu Ricard Matthieu Ricard (; , born 15 February 1946) is a Nepalese French writer, photographer, translator and Buddhist monk who resides at Shechen Tennyi Dargyeling Monastery in Nepal. Matthieu Ricard grew up among the personalities and ideas of Fre ...

, who is a Buddhist monk and a writer. His aunts are Anne Sarraute and photographer Dominique Sarraute. He has three sons named Simon, David, and Benjamin.

Career

A graduate of the

Institut d'études politiques de Paris Sciences Po () or Sciences Po Paris, also known as the Paris Institute of Political Studies (), is a public research university located in Paris, France, that holds the status of ''grande école'' and the legal status of . The university's unde ...

(Public Service section, class of 1988) and former student of the

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(class of Léon-Gambetta, 1991–1993), Nicolas Revel joined the

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as legal adviser. In 2000, he was appointed technical advisor by the

Minister of Agriculture An agriculture ministry (also called an agriculture department, agriculture board, agriculture council, or agriculture agency, or ministry of rural development) is a ministry charged with agriculture. The ministry is often headed by a minister f ...

Jean Glavany Jean Glavany (born 14 May 1949 in Sceaux, Hauts-de-Seine) is a French politician of the Socialist Party (PS) and former Minister. From 1981 to 1988, Glavany was head of cabinet of President François Mitterrand François Maurice Adrien Mari ...

. After

Bertrand Delanoë Bertrand Delanoë (; born 30 May 1950) is a French retired politician who served as Mayor of Paris from 2001 to 2014. A member of the Socialist Party (PS), he previously served in the National Assembly from 1981 to 1986 and in the Senate from 19 ...

's victory in the 2001 municipal elections, the new

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chose him as deputy chief of staff (in 2003). He appointed him Chief of Staff in 2008.

References

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