Rémy Pautrat


Rémy Pautrat was a French civil servant. He served as Director of the Direction de la surveillance du territoire from 1985 to 1986 and was security advisor to Prime Minister Michel Rocard from 1988 to 1991. He also served as Deputy Secretary-General of the Secretariat-General for National Defence and Security from 1994 to 1996.

Life and career

Born in Nevers on 13 February 1940, Pautrat's father worked for SNCF. After attending secondary school in his hometown, he studied law in Clermont-Ferrand and Paris. From 1966 to 1969, he worked for the Ministry of Finance of Algeria. In 1974, he graduated from the École nationale d'administration. He served as a sub-prefect in Manche and Yonne. On 16 February 1984, he was named. He served in this role until he was appointed Director of the Direction de la surveillance du territoire on 1 August 1986, a position he held until 9 April 1986. In 1989, he helped advance reform to the '.
In 1994, Pautrat was named Deputy Secretary-General of the SGDN and established a committee for "competitiveness and economic security". The committee set the groundwork for the ', created in 2003. In 2007, journalist Nicole Chevillard testified that Pautrat alleged Algerian Army support for Djamel Zitouni, perpetrator of the 1995 France bombings. Five years prior, Pautrat had made similar allegations in an interview on Canal+.
Pautrat served as from 1996 to 1999 and was subsequently from 1999 to 2004. During this time, he organized a regional economic intelligence conference in Caen on 29 May 1997. On 10 July 1998, he was a signatory of a convention "for the development of economic intelligence and the internationalization of small and medium enterprises in Lower Normandy" alongside President of the René Garrec. As Prefect of Nord, he created the Comité de développement de l'intelligence économique et stratégique with business leaders from the region and the Lille 2 University of Health and Law. The CDIES employed 80 people in 2009. In 2002, he was appointed chairman of the board of directors of the Agence de l'eau Artois-Picardie. In 2004, he was named executive vice-president of the.
Upon his retirement, Pautrat sat on the Paris committee on video surveillance. He also helped ensure the security of the 2011 French Socialist Party presidential primary. In 2005, he had been a sponsor of the Economic Warfare School.
Pautrat died in Versailles on 6 April 2025, at the age of 85.

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