It must be done now but not in a brutal way

In his vast Office in the still barren shelving stand of apothecary pots, remnants of the rich medical history of Parisian hospitals. Raoul Briet was not affected. The new President of the Supervisory Board of the AP - HP (Assistance publique-Hôpitaux in Paris) elected ten days ago, is not one that ostensibly print their brand with strength symbols and attributes of power. "The AP has a story, I am not pushing the story. "The institutions remain, leaders spend" philosopher. Before launching, as a joke: "and then redecorate cost is not the time."

An energetic reformer

Chronically loss-making, the Parisian hospitals will be in September of a larger plan of modernization and rationalization, which the new President took the summer to reflect. "It put the AP in a righteous path, developing efficiency and modernizing our health care system." It must be done now, but not in a brutal way. "I'm not naive as thinking that this will be simple", he said. These difficulties éffraient obviously not this great clerk of the State under its reserved air, has more than once did the Bard of aggressive reforms. (In turn advise the Court of Auditors (since 1979), rapporteur from the Constitutional Council, head of service to the Plan, Director of the caisse d'Assurance vieillesse (1994-1996) then social security 1996-2000), sherpa to prepare the European (2002) social agenda, then Chairman of the Supervisory Board of the Reserve Fund for pensions (since 2003), man has survived all political alternations, leaving his trace in many explosive reports: plan Juppe for social security, Michel Rocard on the pensions white paper... With a few solid beliefs: "commitment to public service values, of solidarity, must go hand in hand with the search for the financial balance." And a regret, matured over his last years in the reserve fund: "that public decision-making focus too often the short-term".

Over the years, his interest in public affairs and social sector not be are never contradicted. Nothing it is predestined yet. "There was neither doctor nor official in my family, I am not a product of social reproduction" fun this enarque of fifty-seven years, coming from a modest family of entrepreneurs in the North of the France construction. None of his three children is considering, moreover to make career.

The "will to take the heat out."

Bold, human grown yet the consensus. A proven persuasive method, that it has deployed to be elected to the AP - HP to the General surprise, however Assistant it to the Mayor of Paris, Socialist Jean-Marie Le Guen, after being appointed to the Supervisory Board of... by another Socialist, the President of the regional Ile-de-France Claude Evin health agency. "I have argued my will to take the heat out, to depoliticize the Supervisory Board, which should no longer be a resonance Chamber", he says. The duel was tight - he carried a voice in the third round - it could had been more: "S i we were tied, it is the oldest that he would have prevailed." "But I am his older... seventeen days.