The predecessor of Laurent Le Bon a chairmanship of the Center Pompidou, Serge Lasvignes died of a long illness on the night of February 15. He is in line with presidents of the Center Pompidou from the High Administration and not from the Museum World. Born in 1954 in Toulouse, associate of letters, he teaches a few years in secondary school before joining the National School of Administration. He then began a career as a lawyer on the Council of State, then to the Superior Council of Audiovisual. His trajectory led him to the Ministry of National Education, where he held various management positions, before being appointed in 2006 secretary general of the government, a function he will exercise for almost ten years.
In 2015, he was chosen by François Hollande to chair the Center Pompidou, succeeding Alain Seban. He defends the opening of the center as a place of dialogue and sharing, in particular by strengthening speech and public debate. In fact it has not changed much compared to its predecessors. It is renewed for a year in 2020.
Among its achievements is the program 40 projects in the region, intended to disseminate the influence of the Center Pompidou beyond Paris, as well as the launch of the Center Pompidou Ile-de-France in Massy, scheduled for 2026 for which the Court of Auditors recently denounced the Choice of a private public partnership (PPV). While in his arrival he said “I do not believe in a brand policy as a fast food chain”, He validates the opening of the Center Pompidou West Bund Museum in Shanghai in 2019 and the renewal of the Málaga antenna in 2020. He is also on the initiative of a branch of the Center Pompidou in Jersey-City that he had announced In 2021 for an opening in 2024 and which is still in the boxes.
It is under his mandate that the master plan was initiated that led to a closure of the center for 5 years while Serges Lasvignes had only considered a closure of 3 years.
