Graduated from ENA.
It is a line on the CV that still has its effect, and not only in the senior civil service.
Alexandre Bompard, Pierre-André de Chalendar, Frédéric Oudéa and Stéphane Richard, among others, respectively CEOs of Carrefour (of which LVMH, owner of Le Parisien, is a shareholder), of Saint-Gobain, of Société Générale and of Orange, are graduates of this temple of republican meritocracy.
Trained in "the school of great servants of the State", they now run private multinationals.
It is also a popular qualification on the boards of directors of large companies, although its influence is waning.
"L'X [
Editor's note: Polytechnique
] or HEC have more wind in their sails, slips a ... enarque, party" slippers "at a French giant of telephony.
The profile of the enarques remains nevertheless appreciated, in particular in the groups where the State owns shares, because their good knowledge of the State mysteries and their networks are assets.
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CEOs, CEOs, directors of large companies, the enarques are therefore indeed in the business world, at the heart of the real economy, but they are also found in its superstructure, at the Ministry of the Economy and Finance. .
In Bercy, it is an understatement to say that they prosper, whether they are the directors of central administrations or the "troops" of the prestigious departments of the Budget and the Treasury.
Here, the dreaded announcement of the abolition of the school had the effect of a cold shower.
"Macron gives the scalp of the ENA to the yellow vests when there are no more yellow vests ..., coward, bitter, a former student.
Watch out for populism.
Removing the school will not remove the elites.
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Less than 10% of former students in the private sector
But to tell the truth, the President of the Republic is not the only one to think that the ENA - whose (bad) accounts have been ridiculed - must be dusted off.
"(Certain ministerial advisers) put on a spectacle of the caricature of this technocratic monarchy that the Fifth Republic has become, where diplomas are worth a nobiliary title, functions rank, ranks precedence".
Who is writing these lines?
Bruno Le Maire, the current Minister of the Economy, in his latest book (“L'Ange et la bête”, Gallimard).
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Factory to CEO, really?
Or is it the result of the “layoff” system (up to ten years), which allows one to opt, for a time, for more lucrative careers in the company?
Like an Emmanuel Macron passing from the General Inspectorate of Finance to the Rothschild investment bank.
A study carried out on the occasion of the 70th birthday also revealed that, among former students, less than 10% worked in the private sector.
