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Olivier Chevrillon

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(Deep state functionary?, media executive)
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Born28 January 1929
Paris, France
Died22 January 2013
Paris, France
NationalityFrench
Alma materENA
RelativesHedwige Chevrillon
French media CEO and civil servant

Olivier Chevrillon was a French civil servant and media executive who attended the 1980 Bilderberg meeting. He was a member of Club Jean Molin. In 1976, he participated in the creation of the French-American Foundation.[1][2]

Background

Olivier Chevrillon was a French media CEO and civil servant. At the age of twenty, he started studying at the elite ENA school. He finished three years later and chose to join the Council of State for his mandatory ENA civil service.

Activities

Olivier Chevrillon became a senior civil servant and joined the cabinet of Alain Savary, the minister in charge of Morocco and Tunisia, who resigned during the scandal of the air interception of Algerian independence fighter Ben Bella on October 22, 1956. He was then Jean-Pierre Dannaud's assistant at the Ministry of Cooperation as the decolonization of Africa launched by General De Gaulle entered its most active phase.

In 1965 Olivier Chevrillon joined the operation " the search for Monsieur X" (launched by Simon Nora and Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber, originally to elect Gaston Defferre the mayor of Marseille, a moderate leftist, to the presidency against General De Gaulle.[3]

In 1967-68, Olivier Chevrillon travelled the US, from Harvard to Palo Alto, from Santa Monica, to Monterey, where he was introduced to PPBS, Planning, Programming and Budgeting System, the latest method of public management. He then participated with Michel Albert in the writing of Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber's bestseller The American Challenge and joined the newspaper L'Express with JJSS, which wanted to transform his weekly into a news magazine in the editorial line of Time or Newsweek.

In 1972 a team was formed around Olivier Chevrillon, CEO, and Claude Imbert, managing editor, in the new weekly Le Point

In 1976, he participated in the creation of the French-American Foundation.

In 1980, he was invited to the Bilderberg.

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