Audrey Azoulay : How the protégé of François Hollande has changed his life ? – Gala

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After having led the NCC in 2011 and served as minister of Culture François Hollande, between February 2016 and may 2017, Audrey Azoulay becomes director-general of Unesco after an intense campaign.

Director of the Centre national du cinéma et de l’image animée in 2011, Audrey Azoulay became the minister of the Culture of his friend, François Hollande, between February 2016 and may 2017. Moreover, it is with him and the minister of foreign Affairs that the decision of an application for the post of director-general of Unesco is taken in march 2017. In the meantime, and prior to his departure from the post of Minister of Culture, she defends the project of international festival of television series in Lille against the project from cannes, Fleur Pellerin. Since then, Audrey Azoulay is the campaign and even enjoyed the support of Emmanuel Macron as she explained to Jeune Afrique : “The chair facilitates my contact with other heads of State, it actually implies. He has written a large number of his counterparts to support my application. I accompanied Jean-Yves Le Drian, the minister of foreign Affairs, in his travels. The support of France’s total.”

The one who is both a politician and a woman of culture has put forward his double culture, French and moroccan, as well as its know-how in the field of cultural administration and science And it paid off. This October 13, Audrey Azoulay is to become director-general of Unesco, an organization for which she has big plans : “I want to restore to Unesco its place. Marginalized, it has tended to move away from its core missions and centres of decision-making. It is necessary to restore confidence in this institution so that it plays a leading role in global governance. This happens, among other things, for the settlement of the financial question.”

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