Stéphane Gervasoni

Stéphane Gervasoni graduated from the Institut d’études politiques (IEP) de Grenoble (Grenoble Institute of Political Studies, France) in 1988 and from the École nationale d’administration (ENA) (National School of Administration, France) in 1993 (Léon Gambetta graduation class).

He began his professional career in 1993 as a junior officer at the Conseil d’État (Council of State, Paris, France), where he subsequently became a master of petitions from 1996 (holding that office until 2008, the year in which he was appointed as a conseiller d’État (Councillor of State)). In the former role, he was a Judge-Rapporteur in the Litigation Division until 1997 and, in the latter role, a member of the Social Affairs Division (from 1996 to 1997). At the same time, he was a commissaire du gouvernement (Government commissioner) in the Special Committee on Pensions from 1994 to 1996 – a committee which was, at the time, temporarily attached to the Conseil d’État – and a legal adviser to the French Ministry of the Civil Service and to the City of Paris from 1995 to 1997.

In 1997, Mr Gervasoni joined the Prefecture of the Département of the Yonne (France) as Secretary-General, a position which he combined with that of Sub-Prefect of the District of Auxerre until 1999. He then joined the Prefecture of the Département of Savoie (France), where he held the office of Secretary-General and that of Sub-Prefect of the District of Chambéry (France) from 1999 to 2001.

The duties that Mr Gervasoni performed in the Conseil d’État and in public administration led him to the Court of Justice of the European Communities, where he was a legal secretary to Judge Jean-Pierre Puissochet from 2001 to 2005. He was appointed as a Judge at the European Union Civil Service Tribunal on 5 October 2005, the date on which that newly created court was established. He served at that Court until 6 October 2011, including as President of Chamber between 6 October 2008 and 6 October 2011.

Returning to the Conseil d’État, Mr Gervasoni was Deputy President of the Eighth Chamber of the Litigation Division from 2011 to 2013.

He has also been involved in teaching, holding the post of senior lecturer at the Institut d’études politiques (IEP) de Paris (Paris Institute of Political Studies, France) from 1993 to 1995 and at the University of Luxembourg since 2016. In addition, he was a full member of the Appeals Board of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) from 2001 to 2005 and a member of the Appeals Board of the European Space Agency (ESA) from 2011 to 2013.

Mr Gervasoni was appointed as a Judge at the General Court on 16 September 2013. He has been elected twice by his peers as President of Chamber, an office that he has held since 21 September 2016.