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Amélie Verdier

Pour mesurer l’engagement pour la chose publique de cette très haute fonctionnaire, un simple regard sur l’autocollant “passion d’Etat” derrière son téléphone suffit. L’inspectrice des finances n’est pas la plus people de sa promotion de l’ENA (Senghor), mais elle est charismatique et a gravi à toute allure les échelons du paquebot de Bercy. Directrice de cabinet de Jérôme Cahuzac, puis de Bernard Cazeneuve, passée par l’ARS Ile-de-France pendant le Covid, elle est désormais patronne de la vaste direction générale des finances publiques.

Elle et ses 100 000 agents veillent à la délicate exécution budgétaire dans un contexte où les craintes de dérapage sont extrêmes. Issue des milieux de centre gauche et dotée d’un sens politique — une qualité qui manque à beaucoup d’autres “technos” —, elle a flirté avec le macronisme en 2017 sans jamais franchir le Rubicon, et a décliné la direction du cabinet de Barnier à Matignon.

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