Journalist and reporter for TF1 and LCI for several years, Gilles Bouleau spent ten years abroad as a correspondent in London and then Washington. Head of special operations from 2011, he became presenter of TF1’s 8 p.m. news on June 4, 2012, succeeding Laurence Ferrari.
Trained at Sciences Po and the CFJ, he has also hosted election evenings for ten years and is delighted to ensure the presentation of the debate between Marine Le Pen, leader of the National Rally, and Emmanuel Macron, outgoing President and leader of the Republic in walk. In Le Parisien, he said about this delicate media exercise: “We are the guarantors of the debate. A debate is not a rat race. We will sometimes have to tell them that ‘this is not the time or it is not worthy’, we must affirm our authority, benevolent and firm.“
A program that his wife Elizabeth Tran-Bouleau, also a journalist on TF1, and their two daughters, will watch with attention. An accomplished sportsman – he is a long-distance runner practicing many marathons – he has prepared himself as well as possible intellectually and physically for this debate which promises to be intense.