How the Catholic Church in France Turned a Blind Eye to Sexual Abuse Committed Within It

Vice-president of the French State Council and president of the French Institute of Administrative Sciences (IFSA). From 2010 to 2018 he was the president of the panel set up under article 255 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, in order to give an opinion on candidates’ suitability to perform the duties of Judge and Advocate-General at the Court of Justice of the European Union. He finished first in the École nationale d'administration (French national school of administration) in 1977, and made most of his career in the State Council. He was also an adviser to the French justice minister and speaker of the government from 1995 to 2006.