Office: | Head of the National Centre for Counter Terrorism |
Term Start: | 21 June 2017 |
Term End: | 6 July 2020 |
President: | Emmanuel Macron |
Predecessor: | Yann Jounot |
Successor: | Laurent Nuñez |
Birth Date: | 12 June 1954 |
Birth Place: | Boulogne-Billancourt, France |
Nationality: | French |
Alma Mater: | Panthéon-Assas University Sciences Po, ÉNA |
Profession: | Prefect |
Pierre de Bousquet de Florian was the head of the newly formed French National Centre for Counter Terrorism, an agency charged with monitoring and preventing terrorism in France, from the agency's establishment in 2017 to before being succeeded by Laurent Nuñez in 2020.[1] Bousquet also headed the Direction de la surveillance du territoire from 2002-2007.[2] Since leaving public service he has moved into the private sector in a senior advisory role at a consultancy firm. [3]