The former champion and senior civil servant who went through the private sector, leaves the French tennis federation and her position as general manager.
The compliment comes from another Amélie, Mauresmo, appointed director of the Roland-Garros tournament last December. “ She has an impressive work ethic and capacity. With Amélie, we are very complementary. Me, I am very instinctive in what I do, and she, more reasoned, more argued“, declared this week in the columns of the Figaro the former world number one in tennis, about the general manager of Roland-Garros. Two days before the start of the French Open, Amélie Mauresmo and the French tennis federation therefore saw their boss selected by Élisabeth Borne and Emmanuel Macron to succeed Roxana Maracineanu as Minister of Sports and the Olympic Games.
Already approached for the ministerial post before the appointment of the former world swimming champion, Amélie Oudéa-Castéra was a high-level tennis player (winner of the famous Orange Bowl reserved for children under 14, semi-finalist in juniors at Roland-Garros) and spent four years on the women’s circuit before retiring at the age of 18 to embark on higher education. A graduate of Essec then Ena, she landed at the Court of Auditors then switched to the Axa group for four more years before landing at Carrefour as director of e-commerce and digital transformation of the band. And finally last year, after a long reflection, she decided to return to her first love, and on the court, by joining Gilles Moretton, newly elected president of the French tennis federation.
Useful experience
At 44, this mother of three boys, married to Frédéric Oudéa (the boss of Société Générale) and niece of journalists Alain and Patrice Duhamel, will be able to share her high standards, her networks, her knowledge of the political thing. Her experience as an athlete but also as a senior civil servant and leader will be particularly useful to her for this ministry which will see two huge events take place in France: the Rugby World Cup in 2023 and the Olympic Games in 2024.
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