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Yannick Blanc, born in 1955, is a former senior civil servant at the French Ministry of the Interior, where his responsibilities included elections, religious affairs, associations and foundations. He served as Prefect of Vaucluse and Val-d’Oise, and chaired the French Civic Service Agency (Agence du Service Civique) from 2016 to 2019.
Alongside his professional career, he has been personally involved in strategic foresight and social innovation. From 2012 to 2018, he chaired La Fonda, a think tank dedicated to the nonprofit sector. In this capacity, he helped establish ADASI (Association for the Development of Strategic Support and Innovation in the Public Interest) in 2014, and the French Institute for the Nonprofit Sector (Institut français du monde associatif) in 2019. The latter serves as a platform for funding and fostering research on nonprofit organizations and civic associations. He currently chairs both organizations.
In 2013, he was one of the founding members of the French Society for Foresight (Société française de prospective) and joined Futuribles International, an organization he has chaired since 2019.
