The Villa Gillet
Founded in 1987, the Villa Gillet welcomes in Lyon fiction and non-fiction writers, artists and scholars from over the world to ponder issues relevant to our ever shiflting world. The Villa Gillet makes the work of exciting contemporary thinkers accessible to the largest audience possible, by organizing events during the year, and during its festivals : the International Forum on the Novel — happening every year in May since 2007— co-organized with "Le Monde", Walls and Bridges, a ten-day series of events that happened from 2011 to 2013 and Mode d'emploi : un festival des idées — a festival of public debates — initiated in 2012.
Lucile Schmid
POLITICIAN
France
BiographY
A French politician, Lucile Schmid was the socialist party’s regional councilmember for the Île-de-France region from 2004 to 2010 and is currently a member of the national office of Europe Écologie Les Verts.
After working in Algiers as an economic adviser to the French embassy until 1995, she joined the Ministry of the Economy and in 2000 became an adviser to the minister of employment and solidarity on the subjects of immigration, integration and citizenship. Head of the Institutions and Society Department of the Center for Strategic Analysis in 2003, in 2006 she became human resources manager for the Treasury at the Ministry of Economy and Finance.
Lucile Schmid is also a member of the editorial committee of Esprit.
