Christian Pierret, former Minister in charge of Industry, Trade, SMEs and Consumer Affairs as Secretary of State then as “Ministre délégué”, between June 1997 up to May 2002, joined the law firm August & Debouzy as a Partner in the Public, Regulatory & Competition practice group. as of July 1, 2002.
Alumnus of ENA, the prestigious “Grande Ecole” for the top-level civil servants and senior officials, Christian Pierret has had a dual career in the political and private sectors.
He was Member of Parliament (1978-1993). As such, he was the Budget Bill Rapporteur-general for five years (1981-1986).
He was Chairman of the Supervisory Committee of the Caisse des Dépôts (1988-1993).
Christian Pierret is also Mayor of Saint-Dié-des-Vosges (about 25.000 inhabitants) with no interruption, since 1989.
In the private sector, he created a venture capital firm (SADEPAR) in 1990, in the region “Lorraine” and was Executive-Vice-Chairman of Accor group (1993-1996), where he was more specifically in charge of legal and tax issues as well as M & A.
In early 2002, he had announced that he would not be seeking a new mandate as an MP, backing the candidacy of his former deputy. Known as a specialist in the regulations governing public-sector firms, liberal oriented, he initiated the so-called "Pierret Act" of February 10, 2002, on the opening up of France's national electricity and NTIC markets to competition, and the local and regional territorial communities’ legislation.
Christian Pierret’s main focus is corporate business, interface between public sector and private firms in such issues as environment for instance, as well as European law (concentration, competition, state aids). Chairman of the French Energy Think Tank “Vista”.

Practices
Public, Regulatory & Liability Law
-Public service delegation
-Local & regional territorial communities
Administrative and Parliamentary lobbying

Education
Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris (Diploma)
Ecole Nationale d’Administration (ENA) (Promotion Charles de Gaulle), 1972
Doctorate in Economics (D.E.S)

Bar admission
Paris, 2002
Brussels

Languages
English
German