Julien Boucher, born in 1976

Conseiller d'État  (Councillor of State)
Knight of the National Order of Merit

A graduate of the Paris Institute of Political Studies (Sciences Po Paris) (1998) and holder of a Master's degree in Public Law (1999), he subsequently attended the National School of Administration (ENA) from 2000 to 2002 (graduating top of the "Copernicus" class).

He began his career at the Conseil d'État as a Level 2 auditeur (2002-2003), then as a Level 1 auditeur (2003-2005). He then became maître des requêtes at the Conseil d'État (2005-2017).

Alongside these roles, he was co-head of the Conseil d'État documentation center (2007-2008) and rapporteur for the working group on the ethics of Conseil d'État members (2007). 

From 2008 to 2012, he held the position of public rapporteur to the Litigation Division and other other trial benches of the Conseil d’État, before becoming Constitutional Affairs advisor to the Secretary General of the Government (2011-2012).

He was then appointed Director of Legal Affairs at the General Secretariat of the Ministry of Ecological Transition and Solidarity and the Ministry of Territorial Cohesion (2012-2019). 

He was promoted to Conseiller d'État in 2017. In 2019, he was appointed Director General of the French Office for the Protection of Refugees and Stateless Persons (Ofpra), and was renewed for another term in 2022.

On April 15, 2025, he returned to the Conseil d'État.