PROFILES

Benoîte de Sevelinges runs Monaco’s Centre Hospitalier Princesse Grace (CHPG); she’s a modern manager who has made patient experience a top priority. “I’m passionate about my profession, it’s one you commit to 100%. We aren’t doctors, but the way sick people are looked after depends on our decisions.” The 36-year-old Monegasque communicates straightforwardly and believes in teamwork. Blond hair and a broad smile are the outer aspects of a determined woman who masters her subject. Her role? “Bringing the right skills to the table for putting a project together. Taking an idea, building on it and giving it the means to exist,” she sums up. At 25, with a degree from Bordeaux’s IEP institute of political studies under her belt, she took the decision that led to her running Monaco’s only public hospital. “Denis Ravera, then government advisor on health and social affairs, told me about his management plan for the hospital and asked me to be part of it.” In the De Sevelinges family healthcare is a vocation passed down the generations since 1939, and Benoîte had since childhood frequented the CHPG, but it was working at the Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital in Paris that clinched it. “That placement was a real revelation; I knew I’d found my profession.” So after graduating from the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Santé Publique (public-health college) in Rennes nine years ago, Benoîte became assistant to the then director, Patrick Bini. Finally, last July she stepped into her mentor’s shoes, taking on a very full roadmap and stating that she intended to proceed along the lines laid down by her predecessor while injecting her personal touch, notably a greater emphasis on digital. “Artificial intelligence tools are the future of medicine and we want to become a leader in that sector.” Exciting challenges in view!

Par Caroline Stefani / Photo Jean-Michel Sordello