The shift toward the social Bertrand Martinot takes on his return to Paris in 2002

In the small family of enarques past masters in the art of decrypt our right to work or to demine the most explosive social reforms, are familiar with Raymond Soubie, the highly influential adviser to the President of the Republic. Less is known about Bertrand Martinot, who was his colleague in the Elysee Palace for sixteen months before be given the reins of the General delegation for employment and vocational training (DGEFP). Born in May 1968, the son of a headmaster of high school and a senior in College, high in the cult of the Republican meritocracy, followed the Royal path of ministerial, while imposing themselves gradually as one of the most sharp specialists in employment and vocational training.

Financial and social expert

Only originality in this linear route but it is not insignificant , "biculturalism" to speak the language of the financiers of Bercy than that of the rue de Grenelle social experts as well. At the end of the ENA, Bertrand Martinot indeed opted for branch prediction, Blackwing a "Lair of engineers" in which his peers have never been many to risk. "Unorthodox choice" that explains his "enormous appetite" for macroeconomics in General and mathematical models in particular. After four years at the "RFP", under the leadership of the current Director General of Insee Jean-Philippe Cotis, his stay in Brussels, where it is used to aggregate stability of the Member countries of the European Union programs, allowed him to complete his knowledge of the macroeconomic workings. An essay by extension, "the euro, a currency without policy", was born of this community experience.

The shift toward the social, Bertrand Martinot takes on his return to Paris, in 2002. Appointed at the head of the Office "employment and wages" of the RFP, it will have two years to become familiar with the matter before being called to the Chambers of Nicolas Sarkozy and Dominique Bussereau, respectively Minister of economy and finance and Secretary of State for the Budget. In charge of employment, vocational training and social security budgets, it will remain in position under Hervé Gaymard, Thierry Breton, Jean-François Copé, with, in the background, the social cohesion in launch phase plan. At the Presidency of the Republic, where his duties to advise social were the first online on a myriad of topics key housing at the hospital, the largest two files were the reform of the public employment service, "which is not reduced to the merger ANPE-Unedic", and vocational training. Between Bercy and the Elysee Palace, his first passage to the DGEFP as head of the Department of policies of employment and vocational training the operational service of the delegation will be allowed to touch the finger at the reality of the field on all these issues.

Dry subjects. But fantasy and humour percent under the austerity in this father of two children, pianist to his lost hours and great fan of vaudevilles. An iceberg that he keeps no doubt for the beautiful Isabelle d'Este, including the portrait painted by Titian enhances his Office with a touch of mystery.