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Claude Gueant

Claude Guéant
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Minister of the Interior
In office
27 February 2011 – 16 May 2012
President Nicolas Sarkozy
Prime Minister François Fillon
Preceded by Brice Hortefeux
Succeeded by Manuel Valls
Chief of Staff of President of France
In office
2007–2011
President Nicolas Sarkozy
Preceded by Frédéric Salat-Baroux
Succeeded by Xavier Musca
Personal details
Born (1945-01-17) 17 January 1945 (age 72)
Vimy, France
Nationality French
Political party Union for a Popular Movement
Alma mater Institute of Political Studies, Paris
National School of Administration, Strasbourg

Claude Guéant (born 17 January 1945) is a French civil servant. The former Chief of Staff to Nicolas Sarkozy, he served as Minister of the Interior from 27 February 2011 until 15 May 2012. He is a member of the conservative Union for a Popular Movement (UMP).

Claude Guéant was born in Vimy. He studied law in Paris at a university. He then entered Sciences Po and then the ENA administration school (Thomas More promotion of 1971). After graduating from the ENA, he became chief of staff of the prefect of the Finistère department, and then, in 1974, general secretary of Guadeloupe for economic affairs. In 1977, he entered the Ministry of Interior as a technical counsellor of Christian Bonnet, an office which he held until François Mitterrand's election in 1981.

Nominated sub-prefect (sous-préfet hors-classe), he then worked alongside the prefect of the region Centre. Guéant then became general secretary of the prefecture of the Hérault department and then of the Hauts-de-Seine. In 1991, he was nominated prefect of the Hautes-Alpes department.

During the second cohabitation (Édouard Balladur's government), he was named deputy-director of Charles Pasqua's cabinet, who was at the time the Minister of Interior. In 1994, he was named general director of the national police.


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