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.
Jean-Claude Volot
© François Girard
COMPANY MANAGER
France
Biography
Jean-Claude Volot (France) is a company manager who has founded or taken over 24 different companies (SMEs and intermediate-size companies [ISCs]). In 2010 he was appointed by presidential decree to the position of Mediator of Inter-Company Relations then Commissioner of Internationalization of SMEs and ISCs. He now heads the Dedienne group, presiding Dedienne Aérospace and Dedienne Santé while also lending his expertise to the French Investment Commission. From July 2013 to January 2013, Volot has been vice president of the MEDEF (French corporate managers union) in charge of internationalizing companies, industries, and the market. He is also known for being a major collector of contemporary art.
