I am the product of the Republiccaine school

As whenever it was given a new responsibility, Chantal boxes had thought moved to his father, who disappeared when she was twenty years old. He was labour Mason in the area of meaning, where she was born 53 years ago. Her mother, she was of the household. Without the Zola - that of the rest she loves: schoolgirl, she devoured the twenty volumes of the "Rougon-Macquart"-, the new Director of the national Institute of demographic studies (Ined) is aware of the path travelled in a generation. "I am the product of the Republic-caine school... and I'm quite proud", note this distant heir of Alfred Sauvy. A small tip of unusual pride in this discrete family mother who spent more than an hour morning and evening in transit and was surprised that the media if interested feel to his humble person.

Short training and evening classes

From its modest origins, his route course bears the mark. After the Bachelor's degree, which was good in math chooses training short "to not influence the family finances. This will be the IUT of statistics, where she met one who would become his mari and the father of her two children. She began working as a small hand in the Department of Justice while initiating the economy evening at Dauphine. In the wake of its licence, she attempts in 1979 Secretary of Insee competition and gets it. Nine years later, she tackles the contest administrator. New success.

Ensae opened him the doors of the Centre for research in economics and statistics (Crest), where she studied for two years the Econo-study of models of unemployment duration before scrutinizing the evolution of the revenus of the Insee households. Tellingly of intellectual curiosity, she then asked to go in the other wing of the House, one dedicated to businesses, as head of the merchant services division. "This experience me was very helpful when it came for me to apréhender the world of health," she recalls.

Because it is a specialist in the health economics who took the reins of the Ined after the departure of François Héran, a demographer trained in philosophy and anthropology. The Statistician and him are very familiar indeed. In addition to his duties at Ined, François Héran presided over (and still chairs) the Scientific Council of the Institute for research and documentation in Economics (Irdes) health, as Chantal boxes since the spring of 2006. The head of this Organization of multidisciplinary research alongside statisticians, economists and doctors, it contributed significantly to feed the reflection on the establishment of the attending physician and the CMU, or on the complementary health care market.

Prior to joining the Irdes, administrator of the Insee had spent five years in the Direction of research, evaluation, studies and statistics (DREES), joint to the ministries of Social Affairs and health. In charge of the observation of the health and insurance branch, it is led various surveys on topics as diverse and sensitive than emergency services, the quality of life for people with cancer - the first study of its kind in France - or the impact of the disease on incomes and access to bank loans. "This also might well be achieved at the Ined", she points out in a big smile.