Wire of an academic specialist in the Age of Enlightenment and an general inspector in state education, grandson of prefect, Pascal Mailhos has a training of lawyer. After studies in Toulouse, then at the university Paris the II-Pantheon-Assas where it obtained a control of public law, Pascal Mailhos is graduate the Institute of political studies (IEP) of Paris, then the National school of administration (ENA). The prefect Pascal Mailhos directed the Central management of the General informations (RG).

Course

• Principal private secretary of Philippe Séguin with the ministry for the social affairs and employment (1986-1988)

• Principal private secretary of the prefect of Seine-et-Marne (1988-1989)

• General secretary of the prefecture of the Meuse (1989-1991)

• 1991: Chief of the office of the organization and the operation of the prefectures to the ministry for the interior

• 1993-1995: Adviser technical with the Ministry for the Interior. He works then near Claude Guéant, assistant editor of the cabinet of the Minister of Interior Department Charles Pasqua.

• 1994-1999: General secretary with the prefecture of the VAr

• 1999-2002: Subdirectorate from abroad to the ministry for the interior

• 2002: Delegated chief of police with safety and defense in Rennes (Ille-et-Vilaine)

• January 2004: 45 years old, Pascal Mailhos succeeds Yves Bertrand with the head of RG. This nomination was the arm-of-iron object between Jacques Chirac and Nicolas Sarkozy, this last preferring to him Bernard Squarcini, former assistant of Yves Bertrand.

• 2004-2006: Pascal Mailhos directed the Central management of the General informations (RG).

• April 2006: Pascal Mailhos is named Directeur of modernization and the territorial administration to the General secretary of the ministry for the Interior. According to Le Figaro, the Minister of Interior Department Nicolas Sarkozy would reproach him inter alia her inertia in the Affaire Clearstream 2 in which the corbel had blamed it. It was replaced at the Council of Ministers of April 26th, 2006 by Joel Bouchité, current assistant editor of the RG and says near to… Bernard Squarcini.