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Eric Garandeau has twenty-five years of experience in strategic and operational positions related to culture, audiovisual, and digital innovation. He is also a pianist and a writer.

Eric Garandeau served as a Navy officer then Finance Inspector (1998-2001), Adviser to the Minister of Culture (2002-2004) where he oversaw the new Philanthropy legislation related to patronage and foundation (1 August 2003). He was then appointed as Legal and Finance director of the National Center of Cinema (CNC, 2004-2007). As the Adviser to the President of the Republic in charge of culture, media and architecture between 2007 and 2010, he supervised the construction of the new Philharmonic Hall of Paris, the Centre Pompidou Metz, the Museum of Mediterranean Civilizations in Marseille, the Louvre Lens, the renovation of the Grand Palais and the introduction of tax shelters for international films and series. In january 2011 he was appointed CEO of the National Center for Cinema, Vice-President of the Cannes international Film Festival and member of the board of France Télévisions, Arte, INA and the Cinémathèque française. There he created the World Cinema Fund and launched the Shortest Day Film Festival.

In 2015, he created Garandeau Consulting; a strategic and communications consulting firm specializing in project engineering for the cultural, audiovisual, and digital fields. Eric Garandeau designed the Women in Motion program with the Kering group and the Cannes Film Festival to propel female filmmakers in the funding of their future projects. He initiated the creation of a Mission Cinema in the ministry of Defense, he supervised the launch of the “Pass Culture” for the President Emmanuel Macron and the Minister of Culture (2018-2019). He also designed the Intelligence Campus for the ministry of Defense. Between 2018 and 2020 he served as the manager of the Victorine Studios in Nice. He advised the Mayer of Nice to make an alliance with the Provence Studios in Marseille and negotiated a strategic partnership with the Ecole Louis Lumière, to develop training in new formats and technologies in Nice, along with the University of Côte d’Azur. Both studios host international productions from Europe, America and China and develop digital services such as Virtual Reality, Motion Capture and Virtual Sets.

With David Defendi he created a start-up named GENARIO to provide a software for story tellers, starting commercially in 2021. With the violinist David Grimal, he created the only philharmonic orchestra without a conductor: Les Dissonances , which he still takes care as CEO. He is also President of the Côté Court film festival and member of different boards in not-for-profit organizations such as the Cité de l’Architecture et du Patrimoine and the Fonds Musical pour l’Enfance et la Jeunesse. In May 2020 he participated in the creation of the Ad Memoriam Foundation to develop research programs on the societal impact of the COVID-19 epidemic.

In September 2020 he joined TIKTOK as Global Public Policy Director for France where he developed the first #CultureTiktok Seasons. He participated in the launch of the Luxury Tech French Riviera in Cannes, with the first partnership concluded between Ticktok and a University.

As a writer, his first novel “Tapis Rouge” (Albin Michel) was acclaimed by the critics in 2019. His second novel “Galerie des Glaces” (Albin Michel) is released in September 2021.