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LEADER

Céline

Caron-Dagioni

“Any radical

measure requires

prior consultation”

Interview by Milena Radoman

It has been a year since Céline

Caron-Dagioni succeeded

Marie-Pierre Gramaglia as
Minister of Public Works,

the Environment and Urban
Development. Here, she talks

about her career and gives

her impressions of the major
portfolios she manages:

mobility, construction sites

and the energy transition.

Before joining the Civil Service, you started
in the private sector at Mecaplast. What did
you learn from that?
Any experience, whether in the public or private
sector, teaches one a lot. My first professional
experience as a Key Account Manager at
Mecaplast was very structuring because it
was the implementation of what I had learned
during my international business studies in a
company both very locally-established and
internationally-orientated. To sell technical
parts, you have to understand the engineering
without being an engineer, be credible by being
relevant and convincing, both internally and vis-
à-vis customers…I remember going down to the
production line to meet the factory operators.
© Manuel Vitali - Direction de la communication This mission also allowed me to “sell Monaco”

abroad – no-one suspected there was industry
in Monaco! Moreover, in that crazy automotive
world, you deliver and anticipate upcoming car
models, you work with the British and Korean

14 markets in English and with time differences –