Haut-Commissariat à la Stratégie et au Plan

The idea of the Commissariat Général came from exchanges between Charles de Gaulle and Jean Monnet. It was established by De Gaulle as Chairman of the Provisional Government of the French Republic, on 3 January 1946. Monnet was appointed its first General Commissioner, a position he held until moving to Luxembourg in 1952 as first President of the High Authority of the European Coal and Steel Community. The Commissariat Général's first plan, the Modernization and Re-equipment Plan, was designed to spur economic reconstruction following World War II. Its aims were: (1) to develop national production and foreign trade, particularly in those fields where France is most favourably placed; (2) to increase productivity; (3) to ensure the full employment of manpower; (4) to raise the standard of living and to improve the environment and the conditions of national life. This plan is commonly known as the Monnet Plan after Monnet, its chief architect. It set investment targets, and allocated investment funds. ==Centre d'Analyse Stratégique==

The Centre d'Analyse Stratégique was established by decree on 6 March 2006, succeeding the Commissariat Général. Its stated mission was to advise the Government in the creation and application of economic, social, environmental and cultural policy. It drew upon an 11-member Steering Committee that included two Deputies, two Senators and a member of the Economic and Social Council. All of the Centre's work was made public on its official site and in printed editions by La Documentation française. Each year, the Centre also organized around a dozen public events, including seminars, colloquiums and one-day conferences. ==Commissariat Général à la Stratégie et à la Prospective / France Stratégie==

In April 2013 the CAS was reorganized as the Commissariat Général à la Stratégie et à la Prospective, which was rebranded in June 2014 as France Stratégie without change of legal basis. Like its predecessors, it was government-funded and part of the Office of the French Prime Minister. It also served as hub for a network of research bodies and institutes, including CEPII and the Conseil d'Analyse Économique. ==Haut-Commissariat au Plan==

The was established in 2020 as a separate body from France Stratégie with a light secretariat, tailored for politician François Bayrou who became its first and only head. ==Haut-Commissariat à la Stratégie et au Plan==

In December 2024, Bayrou became Prime Minister of France but initially kept his position as Haut-Commissaire au Plan. In March 2025, former minister Clément Beaune was appointed as head of both France Stratégie and the HCP, and the two bodies were merged by executive order in May. ==Premises==

The Plan was headquartered in the , a historical property at 18, rue de Martignac in Paris; the name "rue de Martignac" was often use metonymically to refer to the Planning Commission. The Planning Commission expanded to nearby offices at 30, rue Las Cases and 5, rue Casimir Périer, both vacated by Crédit Agricole when the latter relocated its head office to near the Gare Montparnasse in the 1960s. In 2001–2002, these extensions of the Planning Commission relocated from there to another government building in the same neighborhood at 113, rue de Grenelle. In 2017, France Stratégie moved together with other services of the office of the Prime Minister to the newly renovated office complex known as , known colloquially as "Ségur". In 2020, the HCP was located from creation at a former urban mansion on 19, rue de Constantine on the Esplanade des Invalides, a prestige building ereceted in the 1880s that had been the home of Carlos de Beistegui and his family from 1913 to his death in 1970, was acquired by the French state in 1971, and hosted the , another piece of the office of the Prime Minister, from 1974 to 2017. Since the 2025 merger, the HCSP's head Clément Beaune has kept his office there, while most of the body's staff has remained at "Ségur". ==Leadership==

• Jean Monnet, Commissaire Général, 1946–1952 • Étienne Hirsch, Commissaire Général, 1952–1959 • Pierre Massé, Commissaire Général, 1959–1966 • François-Xavier Ortoli, Commissaire Général, 1966–1967 • , Commissaire Général, 1967–1974 • , Commissaire Général, 1974–1978 • Michel Albert, Commissaire Général, 1978–1981 • , Commissaire Général, 1981–1984 • Henri Guillaume, Commissaire Général, 1984–1987 • , Commissaire Général, 1987–1988 • , Commissaire Général, 1988–1992 • , Commissaire Général, 1992–1995 • Henri Guaino, Commissaire Général, 1995–1998 • Jean-Michel Charpin, Commissaire Général, 1998–2003 • Alain Etchegoyen, Commissaire Général, 2003–2005 • , Commissaire Générale, 2005–2006; Directrice Générale du Centre d'Analyse Stratégique, March 2006 – July 2007 • , acting Directeur Général, July – December 2007 • René Sève, Directeur Général, December 2007 – 2009 • Vincent Chriqui, Directeur Général, January 2010 – 2013 • Jean Pisani-Ferry, Commissaire Général, May 2013 – January 2017 • , Commissaire Général, January 2017 – January 2018 • François Bayrou, Haut-Commissaire au Plan, September 2020 – March 2025 • Cédric Audenis, acting Commissaire Général, November 2023 – March 2025 • Clément Beaune, Haut-Commissaire au Plan and Commissaire Général of France Stratégie, March – May 2025; Haut-Commissaire à la Stratégie et au Plan, since May 2025 ==See also==