Xavier Patier

Xavier Patier (5 March 1958, Brive-la-Gaillarde) is a high French Civil Service official and writer.

Graduated from the Institut d'études politiques de Paris, Xavier Patier is also a former student of the École nationale d'administration (class "Solidarité"). Parallel to his administrative career, marked by several passages in the ministerial chambers, close to Jacques Chirac and Simone Veil, he devoted himself to the writing of his literary work, which earned him several prizes.

He is one of the grand-sons of former minister Edmond Michelet.