ANJ Appoints Pauline Hot as its Director General
Hot replaces Rémi Latastem, who has been in the role since the creation of the regulator five years ago.
France.- The French gambling regulator has a new leader. Pauline Hot has been appointed as director general of l’Autorité nationale des jeux. She replaces Rémi Latastem, who leaves the position after five years to become director general of the Parisian inter-university campus Campus Condorcet.
Hot has been deputy director general of the ANJ since January. A former student of the Ecole Normale Supérieure and the Ecole Nationale d’Administration (Hannah Arendt Class), she has been an auditor since 2020, then a master of requests at the Council of State. There, she served as rapporteur to the 6th chamber of the litigation section and to the administration section.
Latastem had helmed the ANJ since its creation in 2020 as a unified gambling regulator for all forms of gambling in France. The regulator replaced L’Autorité Nationale de Régulation des Jeux en Ligne, which was only responsible for the online gambling market. Land-based gaming had previously been regulated by the Ministry of the Interior.
Departing from the role, he highlighted the regulator’s work to protect minors, prevent excessive gambling and combat illegal activity. He said: “In five years, we have built the foundations of impactful regulation, and we have moved the lines on the various missions entrusted to the ANJ.
“Nothing would have been possible without the exceptional human collective of the ANJ – extraordinary, committed, demanding and creative women and men from different backgrounds; an organised team that upholds the missions entrusted to it and the values of public service.”
Hot replaces Rémi Latastem, who has been in the role since the creation of the regulator five years ago.
France.- The French gambling regulator has a new leader. Pauline Hot has been appointed as director general of l’Autorité nationale des jeux. She replaces Rémi Latastem, who leaves the position after five years to become director general of the Parisian inter-university campus Campus Condorcet.
Hot has been deputy director general of the ANJ since January. A former student of the Ecole Normale Supérieure and the Ecole Nationale d’Administration (Hannah Arendt Class), she has been an auditor since 2020, then a master of requests at the Council of State. There, she served as rapporteur to the 6th chamber of the litigation section and to the administration section.
Latastem had helmed the ANJ since its creation in 2020 as a unified gambling regulator for all forms of gambling in France. The regulator replaced L’Autorité Nationale de Régulation des Jeux en Ligne, which was only responsible for the online gambling market. Land-based gaming had previously been regulated by the Ministry of the Interior.
Departing from the role, he highlighted the regulator’s work to protect minors, prevent excessive gambling and combat illegal activity. He said: “In five years, we have built the foundations of impactful regulation, and we have moved the lines on the various missions entrusted to the ANJ.
“Nothing would have been possible without the exceptional human collective of the ANJ – extraordinary, committed, demanding and creative women and men from different backgrounds; an organised team that upholds the missions entrusted to it and the values of public service.”
The change in leadership comes as France continues to evaluate the possibility of regulating online casino. The government had intended to pass legislation to regulate the vertical this year, but the move was postponed amid concerns from land-based casinos.
In its 2024 annual report, the ANJ noted that it had participated in the government’s consultation on the matter and had suggested that the market must be highly controlled. The debate resurfaced this week as industry leaders Barrière Groupe CEO Grégory Rabuel, Betclic CEO Nicolas Béraud and FDJ United CEO Stéphane Pallez put their views to a Senate Finance Committee hearing. The also expressed concern about the rise in gambling tax in France and expressed interest in the possibility of a simplified single tax rate for the sector.
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