He succeeds Martin Hirsch, who left office in the midst of an unprecedented crisis in the public hospital.
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Nicolas Revel, former chief of staff of Jean Castex at Matignon, was appointed head of the Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP), according to the report of the Council of Ministers on Monday July 4. At the age of 56, he succeeds Martin Hirsch, who for almost ten years had been managing the leading French hospital group (39 establishments, nearly 100,000 employees).
Before his time at Matignon, he had headed the National Health Insurance Fund (Cnam) from 2014 to 2020. A position awarded by François Hollande, who had previously recruited him in 2012 as deputy secretary general of the Elysée, in tandem with Emmanuel Macron.
This enarque (promotion Léon Gambetta), son of the writer Jean-François Revel and the journalist Claude Sarraute, first cut his teeth at the Court of Auditors, before entering politics from the left. He succeeds Martin Hirsch, who left office in the midst of an unprecedented crisis in the public hospital.