Jean-Jacques Aillagon , born the October 2nd 1946 with Metz, is a senior official and Politician French. He was Ministre for the Culture and the Communication of 2002 with 2004. He has been considered, for his “years corréziennes”, like a “close relation” of Jacques and Bernadette Chirac. Named by Nicolas Sarkozy, Presidential decree of the Republic, he is since June 6th, 2007 president of the Public corporation of the museum and the national field of Versailles (Official journal n°01310 of the 6/7/2007)

Career

• 1973 - 1976: Professor with the colleges of Égletons and Tulle (Corrèze)
• 1976: Responsible for research in the architectural research and studies Center
• 1976: Detachment with the ministry for the Culture
• 1977: Chief of the service of the files of architecture at the 3Ecole Nationale Sup3erieure of the Art schools
• 1978: Chief of the service of the foreign relations and the exposures to the 3Ecole Nationale Sup3erieure of the Art schools
• 1981: Sub-manager of the 3Ecole Nationale Sup3erieure of the fine art, in charge of the cultural activity and scientific
• 1982: Administrator of the National museum of Modern art in the Center Georges Pompidou
• 1985: Assistant of the Director of the cultural affairs of the Town of Paris and Directeur of the Office of cultural information
• 1988: Acting general with the cultural events of the Town of Paris
• 1990: Coordinator of the celebration of the Centenary of the birth of the General de Gaulle
• 1992: Managing director of the Video library of Paris
• 1993: Director of the cultural affairs of the Town of Paris
• 1995: Elected official President of the Association of the directors of the cultural affairs of the big cities of France
• 1995: General police chief of the Year France-Egypt (1997-1998)
• 1996: Named, by decree of March 28th, 1996, President of the National center of art and culture Georges Pompidou
• 1996: Charged by the Prime Minister of a mission of reflection for the organization of the celebration, by France, with the entry in the third millennium.
• 1996 : Named, by decree of December 17th, 1996, President of the Mission 2000 in France
• 1999: Renewal, by decree of March 26th, 1999, with the presidency of the National center of art and culture Georges-Pompidou
• 2002: Renewal, by decree of March 7th, 2002, with the presidency of the National center of art and culture Georges-Pompidou (function left during its nomination to the government)
• 2002 - 2004: Minister for the Culture and Transport (see low)
• 2004: To advise François Pinault, president of the Artemis group. Managing director and Director of the Palazzo Grassi with Venice.
• September 2004: named member of the Economic and Social Council under the personalities qualified in the economic domain, social, scientific or cultural.
• April 6th 2005: Elected official administrator then general President-director of the television channel TV5 World by its board of directors. The same day it is appointed administrator then Chairman of the board of International Channel France, whose executive direction is entrusted to its Managing director, Jean Mino. Its nomination with the head of TV5 Monde was criticized by the National union of the journalists on the base of article 432-13 of the penal code. Nevertheless, the Government has, before the designation of Jean-Jacques Aillagon to the presidency of TV5, consulted the Council of State which specified that article 432-13 of the penal code is not applicable to a former minister. March 3rd, 2006 he announces his nearest resignation.
• March 2007: He announces publicly that he will draw with the fate the candidate with the presidential election that he will sponsor. March 9th, he announces that he will thus sponsor Olivier Besancenot, candidate of the LCR (Communist revolutionary league), victorious of the drawing lot which put it in competition with seven other candidates in lack of sponsorship. He declared that “the objective of my initiative was to put the finger on the limits of sponsorship”.
• 6 June 2007: By Presidential decree of the Republic, it is named president of the Public corporation of the museum and the national field of Versailles (Official journal n°01310 of the 6/7/2007)

Formation

• Control of modern history

• Diploma of in-depth studies in history of the art of the university of Paris X-Nanterre: “Purple-the-Duke and the teaching of architecture”
• CAPES in History Geography

Policy

• 2002 - 2004: Member of the First government of Jean-Pierre Raffarin and of the Second government of Jean-Pierre Raffarin as a Minister for the Culture and Transport.

The most notable realization of Jean-Jacques Aillagon, Minister for the culture and Transport, is undoubtedly the Loi on the patronage which he manages to make adopt, which equips France with one of the most favorable modes in this field. The law, authorizing tax deductions going up to 90%, in particular makes it possible to solve the problem of the acquisition of the goods which, declared “national treasures”, must be preserved in France.

Jean-Jacques Aillagon follows a policy aiming at supporting the autonomy of the public corporations concerned with its ministry. Orsay and the Guimet Museum is set up in autonomous public corporations, and their independence, just like that of Louvre and Versailles, is consolidated opposite in particular Meeting of the national museums and direction of the museums of France.

Jean-Jacques Aillagon endeavors to overcome the reserves of its ministry with respect to decentralization: it accepts the decentralization of the service of the inventory, and charges a commission chaired by Rene Rémond to prepare the transfer to the territorial collectivities, on the basis of voluntariate, of monuments belonging to the State but which do not appear to justify only the continuous Nation as a community to hold them.

In the field of the communication, it calls into question the projects of France Televisions on the numerical terrestrial one, inviting the public group to look further into the public service missions of the existing chains. The report/ratio ordered with Catherine Clément on the culture on television (the night and the summer) does not receive however really a concrete application, while that of Blandine Kriegel on violence on television causes the polemic.

Jean-Jacques Aillagon is also the craftsman of the law of July 9th, 2004 relating to the electronic communications and the departments of communication audio-visual, which gives in particular a legal framework to the revival of local televisions.

It negotiates with the Commission of Brussels a limited and gradual opening of the publicity televised for the distribution and a complete opening of the publicity televised for the press, putting an end to a dispute which had lasted for several years.

It also files in the project of Loi DADVSI on the royalties.

The renegotiation of appendices VIII and X of the convention of UNEDIC, relating to the mode of the Contract workers, that the government agrees to approve and that Jean-Jacques Aillagon endorses without states of heart, causes however violent one movement. Taken with part at the time of the ceremony of Césars, the minister does not see coming the movement from intermittent and cancellation without precedent of the festivals at the summer 2003. The days of the minister are consequently counted. He is replaced, in April 2004, by Renaud Donnedieu de Vabres.

• 2004 : Regional adviser of Lorraine.

Jean-Jacques Aillagon obtained the installation of the Center Pompidou - Metz in the capital of Lorraine in order to prepare a possible candidature for the town hall of the city.

Decorations

• Knight of the Legion of honor
• Officer in the National order of the Merit
• Officer of the academic Palms
• Commander of Arts and the Letters