Claude Revel - Opening Speech


Opening Speech

Speaker profile

Claude Revel is the Head of the Délégation interministérielle à l’intelligence économique (which could be translated as the “Office for Strategic Economic Affairs”), a part of the French Prime Minister admini­stration. In this capacity she is in charge of managing the inter-agency process regarding monitoring, anticipating, securing and acting for strategic economic decision-making. She was appointed in this position in May 2013.
Claude began her career as a high civil servant in the French administration (Departments of Construction& Infrastructure, External Trade, Foreign Affairs). She was also Director-general of the Confederation of International Contractors’ Associations. Then she created her own international consulting firm and she ran it until her nomination in her current functions.
She was also a Professor of Economic Intelligence and director of the MA programme in Competitive Intelligence and Knowledge Management at Skema Business School, where she opened the Skema Expert Centre in Economic Intelligence & Influence. She was then (Feb. 2012) nominated as the “Professor of the Week” by the Financial Times Business Education, for her five definitions of: Economic Intelligence, Capacity Building, Global Governance, Economic Security and Level Playing Field. Claude graduated in 1980 from the Ecole Nationale d’Administration, she holds an MSc in political science from the Institut d’Etudes Politiques in Paris and an MA in Business Law from Paris II University.
Claude is also the author of a wide range of publications and books, dedicated to global governance, France and the globalization process, the latest one being: “La France, un pays sous influences?”, published in 2012.