| Alain Juillet | |
| Birth Date: | 1942 9, df=y |
| Birth Place: | Vichy, France |
| Occupation: | CEO of the Directorate-General for External Security (2002-2009) |
| Alma Mater: | HEC Paris |
Alain Juillet, born September 14, 1942, in Vichy (Allier), is a business manager and former senior French civil servant, who became an activist.
He was notably Director of Intelligence within the Directorate-General for External Security (DGSE), before being appointed Senior Official in charge of Economic Intelligence to Prime Minister François Fillon until 2009.
A Freemason, he is one of the founders of the Grande Loge de l'Alliance maçonnique française of which he is the first grand master.
Since the 2020s, he has been noted for his pro-Kremlin positions and his conspiratorial comments, particularly on Russian invasion of Ukraine.
After a baccalaureate in “Experimental Sciences” obtained in 1959 at the Barcelona high school, he successively joined the law faculty of Paris, then those of letters at the Aix-Marseille University, then that of Toulouse. Alain Juillet is also a graduate of HEC Paris (1981), Stanford University (1988), the Institut des hautes études de défense nationale (class of 1987–1988) and the Institute of Advanced Security Studies interior (class of 1990).[1]
From 1986 to 2002, he was an affiliated professor for “Business Strategy and Crisis Management” at HEC Paris, then from 2004 to 2007, lecturer in “information and strategy” at Sciences Po, and, since 2009, lecturer at the École nationale d'administration (ENA) as well as at the French National School for the Judiciary (ENM).[2]
After his university studies and a first career of five years as an officer in the paratrooper commandos in the Action division of the External Documentation and Counter-Espionage Service (SDECE, ancestor of the DGSE) until 1967, Alain Juillet then joined several large national and international companies. He thus joined the Ricard company until 1985 where he ended up as general commercial director.[3]
From 1986 to 1988, he was general manager of Suchard-Tobler then president of the coordination group for France where, after successfully turning around Suchard, he achieved the first ISO-9002 certification of the Strasbourg factory (the group has at the time 3,000 employees deployed on four sites for a turnover of 950 million euros).[4]
From 1989 to 1992, he became general director of the Union laitière normande.[5]
From 1992 to 2001, he carried out the recovery of two other companies, Générale Ultra-Frais (subsidiary of the Andros group) and France Champignon, before developing a consulting activity in strategy and international development for large French and foreign groups. In 2001, he agreed to manage, as CEO, the liquidation of Marks & Spencer (France), and ensured the reclassification of all staff.[6]
Alongside his professional career, he remained assigned to the operational reserve until 2004. In 2002, he was entrusted with the Directorate of Intelligence within the DGSE. He is also responsible for ensuring its reorganization. This mission ended in 2003, before being entrusted with the implementation of economic intelligence within the SGDN (General Secretariat of National Defense). He then held the position of Senior Official in charge of Economic Intelligence (HRIE) to the Prime Minister until 2009; date on which he joined the international law firm Orrick, Rambaud, Martel as senior advisor.[7]
Since 2011, he has been president of the CDSE (Club of Corporate Security Directors) and of the Sécurité & Stratégie magazine with French documentation. In 2016, he chaired the Academy of Economic Intelligence.[8]
In 2017, he created the Association to Combat Illicit Trade in order to raise awareness among the State and to alert and inform businesses about the phenomenon.[9]
In May of the same year, he created a channel on the YouTube social network, Open BOX TV, where he hosted a geopolitics and geostrategy show.[10]