Maryvonne Le Birgnonen has just been appointed director of the ENA, which will soon be the INSP (National Institute of Public Service). This TBS Education graduate has had a rich career in public service and auditing. Business Cool invites you today to look back on its journey.
The academic career of Maryvonne Le Brignonen
After completing her prep at Lycée Franklin, Maryvonne Le Brignonen joined TBS Education, at the time still called ESC Toulouse, in 1994. The student graduated from the establishment in 1997. This is not her only stint in higher education, since she also joined the ENA, the school that she is leading today, in 2007. She went through a special route reserved for employees of the private sector. She is therefore part of the so-called “Willy Brandt” promotion.
It is important to note that students who joined the ENA in 2007 are the very last to benefit from the exit classification. Indeed, in April 2008, the Willy Brandt class voted 76% for the removal of this system. This ranking allowed students of the establishment to know what position they would occupy after their graduation. Thus, the famous “boot”, made up of the 15 best ENA students, had the possibility of choosing the best assignments as a priority.
Maryvonne Le Brignonen’s beginnings in auditing
As mentioned, after obtaining her diploma from TBS Education, Maryvonne Le Brignonen started in the world of auditing. She cut her teeth at Cailleau Dedouit et Associés, between 1997 and 1999, before joining Salustro Reydel in September 1999. She was an auditor there for almost four years, then took on the role of mission director in 2003.
In 2004, Maryvonne Le Brignonen joined one of the Big Four: KPMG. She worked as a manager-mission director until December 2006. After this experience, a gap appeared on her CV, since she resumed her studies at the ENA, until 2009 when her career took the turn that gave her will allow her to be chosen as head of the INSP.
The first steps in the civil service and the reform of withholding tax
After obtaining her diploma from ENA, Maryvonne Le Brignonen joined the General Inspectorate of Public Finances. She served as a financial inspector for more than four years. She then joined the General Directorate of Public Finances (DGFiP) where she worked for a large part of her career and carried out a flagship and complex reform: withholding tax.
In 2014, Maryvonne Le Brignonen headed the personal tax office. It was in 2015 that she became director of the withholding tax project. It was a major project during which it had to train 40,000 DGFiP agents for change, work with worker representative bodies and more than 250 payroll software publishers. She will remain in this position until the measure is deployed and leaves her position in 2019.
In July of that year, Maryvonne Le Brignonen took over as head of Tracfin. This service is directly attached to the Ministry of Economy and Finance. The name Tracfin is an acronym which translates the mission of this special department. It means: Intelligence processing and action against clandestine financial circuits. It is an intelligence service whose objective is to fight against money laundering, terrorist financing or tax fraud.
Maryvonne Le Brignonen and the reform of the ENA and INSP
In December 2021, Maryvonne Le Brignonen will therefore take over as head of ENA, the National School of Administration, which is intended to be transformed into INSP, the National Institute of Public Service. This ambitious reform, the will of Emmanuel Macron, will also be based on the Bassères report (named after the director of Pôle emploi), a precursor to the INSP.
In his report, recently submitted to the Prime Minister, the man attacks the competition and firstly recommends the elimination of the general knowledge test. The report specifies that, for “ representing all the faces of France, the diversification of recruitment at the INSP is imperative. » This could potentially be replaced by an “administrative culture” test which would focus on the expectations of a senior civil servant.
On the other hand, the Bassères report recommends the establishment of a “ new test for valuing the written background, assigned a high coefficient (6) to take into account the diversity of backgrounds and professional practice » as well as the appearance of a “ proof-option to highlight the skills of candidates in different fields (law, human and social sciences, modern language, scientific skills). »
In 2021, a competition preparation system open to scholarship holders, called “Talents”, was created. One of the proposals in the INSP preliminary report recommends perpetuating a fourth competition via this route. In addition, it proposes to recruit candidates who do not come from Grandes Écoles. “ The commission considers that candidates who have completed a university career outside of the grandes écoles must be sought to contribute to greater social, territorial and academic diversification. » This could involve increasing the number of places open to those with a doctorate.
These proposals are only the tip of the iceberg that awaits Maryvonne Le Brignonen, now that she is at the head of the INSP.
