Angélique DELORME

French-American Young Leader | Forbes 40 Women 2025 | Choiseul 100 | Managing Director @Musée du quai Branly - Jacques Chirac

France

About

French-American Young Leader 2025. Forbes 40 Women France 2025. Choiseul 100 – Top Economic Leaders of Tomorrow. Senior executive with a dual education (HEC – ENA) and a proven track record in leadership across public transformation, cultural strategy, cinema and creative industries. Currently serving as Managing Director of a leading national museum, reporting to the President, I oversee complex operational, financial and organizational strategies, with a strong focus on innovation and audience revitalization — bringing culture to new publics and formats. Perfectly bilingual in English and French, fluent in Mandarin, and deeply attuned to cross-cultural dynamics, I bring a global perspective shaped by nearly a decade of international experience across Asia and North America. Actively engaged in high-level networks at the intersection of business, public affairs and culture, I believe in the strategic power of imagination, storytelling and visual worlds — whether through museums, cinema, or creative brands. Author of "La Bataille des images. Exception ou extinction du cinéma français ?" (Flammarion, 2025).

Experience

  • Musée du quai Branly - Jacques Chirac (7 yrs 4 mos)
    • Managing Director
      Mar 2026 - Present · 5 mos

      Leading the overall management and strategic direction of the museum, reporting to the President. - Spearheading the design and coordination of the museum's 20th anniversary celebrations, overseeing programming, institutional partnershipts, sponsors and milestone events ; - Guiding strategic decision-making across all operational, financial and organizational areas ; - Driving audience revitalization and innovation strategies to bring culture to new publics and formats.

    • Chief Operating Officer, Deputy Managing Director
      Apr 2019 - Feb 2026 · 6 yrs 11 mos

      Guided strategic decision-making and operational activities across all business areas : - Defined a 5-year strategic action plan, set business metrics and supervised the creation of an operations dashboard - Helped revamp visitor experience and strengthen visitor loyalty, hitting over 1.4 million visitors in 2023 (i.e. a 30% surge since pre-Covid 2019 1.1 million) - Led strategic partnerships with the companies running the restaurants and the book and gift shop on site - Improved team communication by boosting cross-departmental collaboration and implementing a feedback loop for projects from initiation to completion

  • Chairwoman - Arthouse cinema commission at Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée (CNC)
    Dec 2018 - Mar 2025 · 6 yrs 4 mos

    Deputy Chairwoman then Chairwoman (since July 2020) Arbitrated which movie theaters can be labelled as "arthouse" cinemas and setting on the financial support they will each receive for their high-quality programming policy Member of the treasury advance committee deciding on whether to grant cash flow aids to movie theaters development projects

  • Rapporteur - Report on French Global Media Outlets at Services du Premier ministre
    Jan 2019 - Apr 2019 · 4 mos

    Report to the French Prime Minister on the French international media landscape : - comparison with prominent international players such as BBC or CNN - case studies on news flow media and content media - strategic analysis of the current landscape, its distinctiveness, its room for growth - operational proposals to revamp this major soft power tool

  • Advisor to the Minister - International & European affairs, French language, and Heritage at Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication
    Feb 2018 - Nov 2018 · 10 mos

    Advisor to the Minister of Culture Françoise Nyssen / French Government Contributed to the launch of a series of major cultural policy reforms : the initiation of the Villers Cotterêts Castle revamping project ; the debate on the return of African artifacts ; the national museums strategic roadmap ; the bilateral agreement on Al-Ula in Saudi Arabia...

  • Auditrice then Maître des requêtes - currently on secondment from the Corps at Conseil d'Etat
    Jan 2013 - Jan 2018 · 5 yrs 1 mo

    Supreme Court Judge and Legal Advisor to the Government on Law-Making Expertise in Tax Law and Merger Control Law State body joined following ENA's exit ranking