Jérôme Fehrenbach

Jérôme Fehrenbach (born November 28, 1969, in Toulouse) is a French graduate of the ENA, financial inspector and historian. He is the Director General of the Conseil supérieur du notariat.

Biography
A graduate of HEC Paris and Sciences Po, Jérôme Fehrenbach is a former student of the École nationale d’administration (Victor Schœlcher class, 1994–96).

Jérôme Fehrenbach began his career in 1996 after graduating from the École nationale d'administration as a financial inspector. In August 2000, he joined the telecoms, Internet and postal unit of the Directorate-General for Competition of the European Commission, then headed by former Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti.

In 2003, Jérôme Fehrenbach joined the office of Noëlle Lenoir, Minister of European Affairs, as a technical advisor, in charge of Franco-German relations. He became deputy head of the Inspection générale des finances in 2004 before becoming advisor for state reform to Renaud Dutreil, Minister of the Civil Service and State Reform in 2005, then joined the office of Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin the same year as advisor for state reform.

In 2007, he joined the Paris branch of the German consulting firm Roland Berger, where he was responsible for development in the European sector and the regulated services sector. In 2010, he was appointed Director of Banking Services Clients at Caisse des Dépôts. In December 2015, he joined KPMG as Secretary General. In May 2018, he became Director General of the Conseil supérieur du notariat.

Literary career
Jérôme Fehrenbach is the author of several works of historical research on the Ancien régime, the French Revolution and the World War II. He is the author or co-author of works on various subjects from the 17th century to 1945.

Books

 * Louvet de la Somme, Un révolutionnaire de Varennes à Waterloo, 2006, Encrage
 * Une famille de la petite bourgeoisie parisienne de Louis XIV à Louis XVIII, 2007, L’Harmattan
 * Nous voulions tuer Hitler, Philipp Freiherr von Boeselager avec la collaboration de Florence et Jérôme Fehrenbach, 2008, Éditions Privat
 * Le Général Legrand - D’Austerlitz à la Bérézina, 2012, Soteca
 * La Princesse palatine, l’égérie de la Fronde, 2016, Éditions du Cerf
 * Von Galen, Un évêque contre Hitler, 2018, Éditions du Cerf
 * Ballons montés, correspondance et tendresse conjugales pendant l’année terrible, 1870-1871, avec Pierre Allorant, 2019, Éditions du Cerf
 * Jenny Marx:La tentation bourgeoise, 2021, Passés Composés, 396 p.
 * Les Fermiers : la classe sociale oubliée, 2023, Passés Composés, 576 p.