Stéphane Gaillard

Born in 1978 in Dijon, Stéphane Gaillard is a graduate of the Institut d'études politiques de Strasbourg, the LUISS Guido Carli University in Rome and the Institut d'études européennes (Université Libre de Bruxelles). After a career with the French Treasury and then the General Secretariat for European Affairs, he joined the Cour des Comptes after graduating from the École Nationale d'Administration (2011-2012 Marie Curie class). He joined the Cour des Comptes as an auditor in 2013, then became a referendary advisor in 2016, serving as rapporteur and, as of 2015, deputy director of international relations and the French-speaking world. He has also worked as an auditor for various international organizations (World Food Program, World Organization for Animal Health, UNESCO).

General Secretary of the Academy de France à Rome - Villa Medici since October 1, 2016, he will be acting Director for two years from September 2018. As part of this role, he is developing a reform of the conditions for selecting and hosting fellows artists, which will result, in particular, in the creation of a production budget to support the end-of-residency exhibition of fellows. The work of fellows residents is also promoted through the organization of the first editions of the ¡Viva Villa! festival (Paris in 2017, Marseille in 2018, Avignon in 2019 and 2020) in conjunction with Casa de Velázquez in Madrid and Villa Medici Kujoyama in Kyoto. The cultural program is punctuated by cultural events around fellows and the disciplines represented, notably with the creation of the Rencontres littéraires, the revival of the Controtempo contemporary music festival and the implementation of the partnership with the Cité internationale de la bande-dessinée d'Angoulême. For the first time since the creation of the Academy, Stéphane Gaillard undertook the transfer of its archives to the National Archives in Paris for conservation and digitization. He also carried out a survey and restoration of the Academy's extensive plasterwork collections, representing the different eras since the 17th century, which were widely rediscovered and showcased at an exhibition organized in collaboration with the Louvre Museum.