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Jean-Christophe Bouvier

French official

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJan 8, 2026
Entity authorityQ23926055 ↗
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Jean-Christophe Bouvier (born 15 November 1966 in Vienne, Isère) is a French senior civil servant who has served as the Prefect of Martinique since August 2022.

Career

Bouvier is a graduate of the Institut d’Études Politiques de Paris and the École nationale d'administration (ENA).

He served as Prefect of Saint-Pierre and Miquelon from July 2014 to March 2016, and later as Prefect of Cher from February 2020 to July 2022.

On 23 August 2022, he was appointed Prefect of Martinique, succeeding Stanislas Cazelles.

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Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1966, 2022, 2014, 2016—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1966-11-15. The account is most persuasive where Jean-Christophe, Bouvier and French can be independently traced.
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This entry incorporates text from “Jean-Christophe Bouvier” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.