Values and governance

Alexandre Medvedowsky graduated from IEP Paris. He holds a DEA in Macroeconomics (Paris I) and is a former student of the Ecole Nationale d’Administration (Denis Diderot class, 1984-1986). He has been a magistrate at the Conseil d’Etat since 1986 and a member of the cabinet of Laurent Fabius, then President of the French National Assembly from 1990 to 1992. From 1998 to 2001, he was associate professor at the University of Aix-Marseille III and taught at the IEP in Paris until 2006. He was a councillor of the Bouches-du-Rhône from 1998 to March 2015. Appointed State Councillor in July 2001, he joined ESL & Network Holding the same year and became a member of the Management Board of ESL & Network Holding. In 2005, he was appointed Chairman of ESL & Network France. He was appointed Chairman of the Management Board on 1 January 2013. He was elected Chairman of SYNFIE, the French economic intelligence syndicate, in May 2014, and he has also been President of the Observatoire de l’Intelligence Économique since January 2020.

Vincent Montlahuc is Deputy Chief Executive Officer, in charge of the group’s support functions. A trained Sup’Aero engineer, Vincent Montlahuc has spent his entire career working in finance departments. He started his career at Mazars as a financial auditor, then spent ten years learning about entrepreneurship by creating his own consulting firm providing assistance to financial and general managers. In 2008, he joined the listed retirement home management group Korian as Chief Financial Officer and participated in the group’s development until the merger with the Medica group. In 2015, as Secretary General, he worked in an industrial property firm where he restructured the group legally, as well as in the partnership’s sector. Vincent Montlahuc joined ESL Network in January 2019.

Career diplomat, Didier Le Bret, successively stationed in Moscow and Vilnius between 1988 and 1998 has followed for more than ten years Eastern Europe evolutions. In charge of human rights and humanitarian affairs at the Permanent Mission to the United Nations in New York, he participated in the preparation of the Millennium Development Summit in 2000. From 2002 to 2005, he was in charge of external audiovisual action in the Quai d’Orsay Cooperation Department and took an active part in the negotiation of the Convention on Cultural Diversity at UNESCO. From 2005 to 2007, he directed the service of cooperation and cultural action of the French Embassy in Dakar. Counselor, then Deputy Director, in the Office of the Secretary of State for Cooperation, from 2007 to 2009, he particularly follows the external cultural action and educational policy. He was appointed Ambassador of France to Haiti in September 2009, a position he held until December 2012. During his mission, he had to manage and coordinate the French response to the January 12, 2010 earthquake . He directed the Quai d’Orsay Crisis Center from 2012 to 2015 before being appointed National Intelligence Coordinator to the President of the Republic, a position he hold from May 2015 to September 2016. Didier Le Bret joined ESL & NETWORK in June 2018 , as a senior partner.

As a member of the Académie des Sciences Morales et Politiques (Academy of Human and Political Sciences) at the Institut de France, a professor at the renowned Institut d’Etudes Politiques (Sciences Po) in Paris, and an independent Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C., Jean-David Levitte has enjoyed a distinguished diplomatic career. Joining the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1970, Jean-David Levitte began his diplomatic career in Hong Kong, then moved to Peking, before being called upon by President Giscard d’Estaing to join the Elysée in 1975, where he remained until 1981. He was, between 1995 and 2000, Diplomatic Adviser and Sherpa to President Jacques Chirac, having previously occupied a number of posts at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, notably Director General for Cultural, Scientific and Technical Relations, Director of the Department for Asia and Oceania, Assistant Director of West Africa, and French Ambassador to the United Nations in Geneva. Between 2007 and 2012, he was the Diplomatic Adviser and Sherpa to President Nicolas Sarkozy. Prior to this, between 2003 and 2007, he was French Ambassador to the US in Washington, D.C. covering the difficult period of the War in Iraq, while in 2000 to 2002, he had been French Ambassador to the UN in New York, presiding over the Security Council at the time of the terrorist attacks of 11 September 2001, and successfully negotiating the return of the arms inspectors to Iraq in 2002. Jean-David Levitte joined ESL & Network group in September 2015.