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Bertrand Dumont has headed up the French Treasury since 12 January 2024. He is assisted in his duties by a Deputy Director General, Claire Cheremetinski, who was appointed on 1 July 2024. Dorothée Rouzet serves as Chief Economist.

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Bertrand Dumont, Director General of the Treasury

Bertrand Dumont is a graduate of the Ecole Normale Supérieure and the Ecole Nationale d'Administration, as well as having an agrégation in history.

He began his career at the French Treasury, where he was successively responsible for restructuring sovereign debt within the Paris Club secretariat and for managing the State's treasury position. He then spent two years as Alternate Executive Director for France at the International Monetary Fund in Washington.

In 2007, he joined the private office of Christine Lagarde, Minister for the Economy, as international adviser, where he was responsible in particular for the French Presidency of the European Union.

In 2010, he was appointed to the cabinet of Michel Barnier, European Commissioner for the Internal Market and Services, and worked on implementing the financial regulation decisions taken in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis. As part of this mission, he was also responsible for setting up the Banking Union. He became Michel Barnier's chief of staff in 2014.

After two years at HSBC Bank as director of prudential management, he was called to work for Bruno Le Maire as deputy chief of staff in May 2017.

He returned to the Treasury in 2019 as deputy director general, working alongside Odile Renaud-Basso.

He had headed Bruno Le Maire's office since 2020.

Claire Cheremetinski, Deputy Director General of the Treasury

A graduate of the Institut d'études politiques de Paris and the École nationale supérieure des postes et télécommunications, Claire Cheremetinski is a State administrator with solid and diversified experience in the Ministry of the Economy and Finance and in European institutions.

She began her career at the French Treasury in the Multilateral Affairs and Development Department. She then became Deputy Financial Advisor at France's Permanent Representation to the European Union in Brussels (2005-2007). She then took the position of Head of the Insurance Companies and Intermediaries Office at the Treasury (2007-2009).

From 2009 to 2011, Claire Cheremetinski was Head of the International Debt Office at the French Treasury and Secretary General of the Paris Club, then Deputy Director of Energy at the French State Holdings Agency (2011-2014).

She became Deputy Director of Trade and Investment Policy in the Multilateral Affairs and Development Department of the French Treasury (2014-2017), then Head of the Bilateral Affairs and Business Internationalization Department (2017-2020), before joining the French Permanent Representation to the European Union in Brussels until September 2023.

Claire Cheremetinski was Advisor to the Director General of the French Treasury since 2023 before she took up her position as Deputy Director General on July 1, 2024.

Dorothée Rouzet, Chief Economist

A graduate of the Ecole Normale Supérieure (Ulm) and the Ecole Nationale de la Statistique et de l'Administration Économique (ENSAE), Dorothée ROUZET holds a doctorate in economics from Harvard University. She began her career as an economic analyst for the Danube-Balkans region at the French Treasury, assigned to the Sofia Economic Mission (2006-2007), before becoming a lecturer in macroeconomic theory and capital markets at Harvard University (2008-2011).

An economist in the Trade in Services Division of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) from (2012-2017), she became senior economist in the office of Laurence BOONE, then Chief Economist of the OECD (March 2017-March 2020).

In March 2020, she was appointed macroeconomic adviser in the office of Bruno LE MAIRE, Minister for the Economy and Finance. Since June 2022, Dorothée Rouzet has been Chief Economist France at Citigroup. She was also a guest lecturer at ESCP Europe (2015-2017) and the University of Paris I (2017-2018).