Councillor of State as his predecessor Marcel Pochard, the new President of the Board of Directors of the meeting of national museums (NMR), Jean-Ludovic Silicani, did not been parachuted there by chance. He knows well the mysteries of the cultural sector, in which his meandering route of versatile officer led him repeatedly to exercise significant responsibilities. For the first time in 1986, when it was given, only thirty-three years there cinquante-quatre today , the Directorate of general administration in the Ministry of Culture. The six years he spent in this close function from that of Secretary General, under François Léotard and Jack Lang, will be among the richest periods of his professional life. In addition, they allowed him to identify by Emile Biasini, the linchpin of the great work of President Francois Mitterrand, who offers him in 1992 branch of the public establishment of the library of France, just before the merger between the latter and the National Library that of the rue de Richelieu which would give rise, late 1993, to the BNF. Today, Jean-Ludovic Silicani is active in the world of media and culture. In addition to the NMR, found at the head of the High Council of literary and artistic property, and support to the modernization of the press Fund.
But this "spirit curious varied things", whose main activity is since 2003 to preside over one of the ten rooms of the section of litigation of the Council of State, is not based in these areas only. Famous "Voltaire" promoting enarque that Villepin, Donnedieu de Vabres, Holland, Royal... , which he left major before Henri de Castries, this Corsica of origin, the son of a school principal, also received trained as an engineer at the Ecole des mines of Nancy, and economic, as he holds a master's degree and a DEA in the matter. This triple culture helped him navigate from one professional universe to another, with three anchor points. Science, first: after four years of Auditor to the Council of State's Office, he became in 1984 Director for the national agency of valorisation de la recherche (Anvar). Social issues, then: "caught" by the last residence of the era Mitterrand while he still remained much work to the BNF, it takes in 1993 the cabinet of Simone Veil to the Ministry of Social Affairs, health to the menu, including, the first of the general scheme pension reform. Third and last axis of work: the reform of the State. Rapporteur-General of the Picq mission responsibilities, and the Organization of the State a fairly critical report to Bercy , Jean - Ludovic Silicani will in 1995 appointed by Prime Minister Alain Juppe Commissioner for the reform of the State. If he does more exercise this function since 1998, he was in no less kept a keen interest in these issues, as shown in its recent proposal to merit pay 180 central administration directors appointed by the Council of Ministers. A suggestion came into force this summer.
