Hirsch, Pepy, Pénicaud… “Servants of the State” in the lucrative business of private education – Liberation

Since the start of the school year in September, Galileo, a lucrative higher education juggernaut, has lined up the hiring of “servants of the State”. A way to establish the legitimacy of the group.

Hardly have we on the phone that he plants there. “The boss of Orpea calls me. Sorry. I’ll get back to you right after.” Guillaume Pepy, former number 1 of the SNCF, is a busy man. He now heads the board of directors of the private group of retirement homes Orpea, in trouble since the release Gravediggersinvestigative book highlighting systemic mistreatment and financial embezzlement.

And since the fall, Guillaume Pepy also chairs the supervisory board of EM Lyon, a prestigious management school, which has just entered – skipping – the leader of private for-profit education Galileo Global Education. He joins two beautiful fish there: Martin Hirsch and Muriel Pénicaud, who also set foot in Galileo these last