Two men two seas but same intellectual posture

To appoint the successor of Emmanuel Lopez, charismatic Director of the Conservatoire du littoral, missing too soon, the State has taken his time. At the end of five months of reflection, is a Breton to the pale complexion chose to replace the Mediterranean from Oran. Two men, two seas, but same intellectual posture. All lovers of the premises subject to natural forces, high off the coast, they have developed for different reasons, same interest in the issues of town planning and the environment, the challenge of the Conservatoire du littoral being precisely to protect the line of coast without the sanctuarize, without exclusion of neither men nor economic activities.

Naturalistic or idealistic, Yves Colcombet acquired, through his servant of the state route, an overall vision for the development of the territory. His beliefs today are close to those of Edgard Pisani, former Minister of the equipment of the Pompidou Government which took one day this beautiful phrase: "Build it is aware of the French space as wealth." After mapping the mechanisms of the major administrations in the Court accounts, which affects him upon his arrival, in 1997, to the 7echambre, in charge of the equipment, the development of the territory, of Agriculture and the environment, the Rennais between in the heat of the subjects. Appointed in 2004 General Secretary for Regional Affairs of the Pays de la Loire, among others under the authority of the prefect of the region it manages infrastructure projects. Three years later, the magistrate participates himself some broad guidelines by joining the cabinet of the Ministry of ecology. On the side of Jean-Louis Borloo, it follows the and planning, Board on the reform of the building permit, the coastal law enforcement and the offshore wind, because maritime matters are his fort of origin.

The appeal of offshore

At the exit of the IAE Paris, his first intention is to integrate the business world that him briefly find his father, an agricultural engineer, but soon he is bored farm. Has always attracted great offshore, he changes course and the school of maritime business administration. Out officer, he sailed on all buildings of the Navy, then anchor to the departmental Directorate of the Maritime Affairs of the Charente-Maritime. It is at this time that rooted its revolt against the bétonneurs of the coast of France. The single common assiduously as stroller and kayaker, until its responsibilities at the top of the State is severely eroding his free time.

At Matignon, he led an ascetic life. Called to the Prime Minister two years ago to continue the reform of the territorial administration of the State, log on the consolidation of decentralized services. Concrete result of the famous RGPP (general revision of public policy), it translates, at the departmental level, by the dissolution of the Directorate of health and Social Affairs (DDASS) in a new direction of population and social cohesion. In the departmental directorates for equipment (DDE) and Agriculture and the forest (DDAF), they merge in a direction of the territories. A big bang "certainly anxiety-provoking" and "indispensable" to the officer, who has often deplored the fragmentation of the forces of the State at the local level. Forty-eight years, he found his ideal: make the best use of funds of the Republic. And as a bonus, at the Conservatory, prevent boilerplate in a circle.