Hélène has been a member of the SNDGCT since 2012, vice-president from October 2018, then deputy president from September 2021, Hélène Guillet was DGS for the City of Thouaré-sur-Loire (2001-2006), DGA (2006-2013) then DGS (2014-2015) of the city of Rezé and DGS of the City of Vertou (2015-2020), three municipalities in Loire-Atlantique. In 2019, she was awarded the bronze medal from AFNOR for local authority managers.

Her presidency will aim to strengthen involvement in sustainable development objectives, equality, and public-private partnerships. She also aims to kick off new initiatives including "incubator" development committees, to promote dynamic and long-term policy stability. She will campaign for the attractiveness of the profession of general management of local and regional authorities.
For local authorities, she will focus on the importance of continued professional development in the sector. She emphasised the importance of working effectively with upcoming local authority professionals, universities, but also, further upstream, at the level of schools and colleges to inspire meaning and content to the public service for future generations.

In relation to the ecological transition, climate change or digital technology, she is looking for partnerships with the private sector and not competitive confrontation that hampers rather than accelerates the transition. She is convinced that the compartmentalisation between the public and private sectors no longer corresponds to the world in which we live and that we should federate energies, wherever they come from.

She has been a SNDGCT member for 10 years: first in the departmental bodies, then nationally from 2016: deputy general secretary, vice-president (2018) and deputy president in September 2021.
A graduate in foreign literature and civilisations, she saw herself as a German teacher or a company director in a future career. After a second degree in marketing and international trade, she spent a few months in a service company in the Paris region and then a year in business development for a service company in Nantes. Frustrated by her career progression, she responded to job advert for an economic development officer at the town hall in Thouaré-sur-Loire. Hélène took the local government entrance exams for the position of territorial attaché and became Chief Executive in 2001.
She worked in the town of Rezé with a population of 40,000 and a 1000 agents. She became deputy chief executive responsible for population services and then Chief Executive. Between mid-2013 and early 2015 she worked in Vertou, a smaller municipality with a population of 23,000 and 350 agents.  There she led a local education project, then worked on a plan to transform the administration. During her time there she demonstrated an ability to work across departments and even beyond the municipal structure into the wider community.

During her TERRITORIALIS speech, Hélène underlined her determination to act for the future as President of the SNDGCT. As senior officers and chief executives, we have the power to act, to create unity and solidarity, facilitate cooperation and partnership that delivers with a single aim: intelligent, inclusive and sustainable public action. Hélène is strongly convinced by the sense of the SNDGCT collective to pave the way to pursue the ambitions on behalf of all members, overcome challenges and to defend the honour of the profession.

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