Claude
d'HARCOURT
Senio Advisor
Claude d’Harcourt has had a diverse career that has led him to hold positions in the administration of several ministries (Interior, Justice, Health), in ministerial offices (advisor to the Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin), and in the field as Regional Prefect or as Director General of Regional Health Agencies. In each of these roles, he has actively contributed to the implementation of innovative public policies.
He served as Secretary General for Administration at the Paris Police Prefecture after having been Director of Financial and Real Estate Affairs at the Ministry of the Interior. He then moved to the Ministry of Justice, where he headed the Prison Administration for four years (2006–2010) under the terms of ministers Pascal Clément, Rachida Dati, and Michèle Alliot-Marie.
At the Ministry of Health, he spent seven years (2011–2018) as Director General of Regional Health Agencies (Haute-Normandie, Lorraine, then Grand Est and Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur), before returning to the Ministry of the Interior as Prefect of the Pays de la Loire Region and later as Director General for Foreign Nationals in France. He subsequently became advisor to the Minister of the Interior and Overseas Territories, Gérald Darmanin.
Born in 1955, Claude d’Harcourt is a graduate of Sciences Po Paris and a former student of the École nationale d’administration (ENA), Human Rights graduating class. He is an Officer of the Legion of Honour, of the National Order of Merit, and a Knight of the Academic Palms.