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{{Short description|French official; prefect and overseas departments administrator}}
{{For|others with this surname|Vian (disambiguation){{!}}Vian}}
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'''Dominique Vian''' (born 25 December 1944 in [[Valence, Drôme]]<ref name="Vian, 1944">{{in lang|fr}} " '''Vian''', '''Dominique''', Marie, André, Ferdinand" (prefect, born 1944), pages 2190-2191 in ''[[Who's Who in France]]'' : Dictionnaire biographique de personnalités françaises vivant en France et à l’étranger, et de personnalités étrangères résidant en France, 44th edition for 2013 edited in 2012, 2371 p., 31&nbsp;cm, {{ISBN|978-2-85784-053-4}} .</ref>) is a French overseas departments administrator.

He is a graduate of Institut d’études politiques d'[[Aix-en-Provence]] ("[[Sciences Po Aix]]").<ref name="Vian, 1944"/>

== Career ==
He was prefect of [[French Guiana]]<ref name="news.google.ca">{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=TagaAAAAIBAJ&pg=4429,1677597&dq=dominique-vian&hl=en|title=UN appoints overseers for Kosovo, refugees|date=22 June 1999|work=[[Milwaukee Journal Sentinel]]|accessdate=15 June 2010}}</ref> from February 1997 to August 1999, prefect of [[Guadeloupe]] from August 2002 to July 2004, and prefect of [[Réunion]] from August 2004 to June 2005.

In 1999 : civil servant of [[United Nations]] in [[Kosovo]].<ref name="news.google.ca"/>

He was ''commissaire adjoint de la République'' (name of sub-prefects in this time) of [[arrondissement of Cognac]] from 1984 to 1986, in [[Cognac, France|Cognac]] City ([[Charente]] department).

He was prefect of [[Ardèche]] in [[Privas]] from 1999 to 2002. During his term of office, nature protection associations accused him of having protected poachers, contrary to the law, during the major annual massacres of migratory birds at the [[:fr:Col de l'Escrinet|Col de l'Escrinet]].<ref name="Vian, 1944"/><ref>Pierre Athanaze : [https://www.amazon.com/livre-noir-chasse-French/dp/286985269X/ref=sr_1_1?crid=5GVUYWMJKMV8&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.VxM6nN59BvMzMHPWlshwHNGSVW-TGEKJA8C8MA65LRwWuPlfeq6ht15jEPRCqyTXrEgS3SX0jfhBDLxSNGwh9Q.liu8xX92aRA0rLPv6ZH3rM7Ip512aDO5SghuRDBPpzo&dib_tag=se&keywo Le Livre noir de la chasse] (Sang de la Terre, 2011)</ref>

He was prefect of [[Alpes-Maritimes]] in [[Nice]] from August 2006 to October 2008.<ref name="nm_vian">[http://www.nicematin.com/ra/cotedazur/150674/alpes-maritimes-le-prefet-dominique-vian-demis-de-ses-fonctions « Le préfet Dominique Vian démis de ses fonctions »] {{webarchive |url=https://archive.today/20130411114540/http://www.nicematin.com/ra/cotedazur/150674/alpes-maritimes-le-prefet-dominique-vian-demis-de-ses-fonctions |date=11 April 2013 }}, [[Nice-Matin]], 8. Retrieved on 9 Octobre 2008.</ref>

''Directeur de cabinet'' (principal private secretary) of [[François Baroin]] (Minister of Overseas) from 2005 to 2006.

Special counsellor of [[Gérard Larcher]] ([[List of Presidents of the Senate of France|President of the Senate of France]]) from 2008<ref>{{in lang|fr}} [http://www.secteurpublic.fr/public/article/dominique-vian-va-etre-nomme-un-conseiller-special-(aupres-du-president-du-senat)-en-charge-des-collectivites-territoriales.html?id=14920&rub=8277&date= « Dominique Vian va être nommé un conseiller spécial (auprès du Président du Sénat) en charge des collectivités territoriales »] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303232126/http://www.secteurpublic.fr/public/article/dominique-vian-va-etre-nomme-un-conseiller-special-(aupres-du-president-du-senat)-en-charge-des-collectivites-territoriales.html?id=14920&rub=8277&date= |date=3 March 2016 }} on ''www.secteurpublic.fr''</ref> to 2011.

''Chargé de mission'' (project manager) of [[Marie-Luce Penchard]] (Minister in charge of Overseas) from 2011 to 2012.<ref name="Vian, 1944"/>

==Honours and awards==
* {{flag|France}}:
** Officer of [[Légion d’honneur]]
** Officer of [[Ordre national du Mérite]]
** Officer of [[Ordre du Mérite Maritime]]
** [[Médaille d’honneur pour acte de courage et de dévouement]] (bronze medal)
* {{flag|Brazil}}: Commander of the [[Order of the Southern Cross]]<ref name="Vian, 1944"/>

==Sources==
* {{in lang|fr}} "'''Vian''', '''Dominique''', Marie, André, Ferdinand" (prefect, born 1944), pages 2190–2191 in ''[[Who's Who in France]]'' : Dictionnaire biographique de personnalités françaises vivant en France et à l’étranger, et de personnalités étrangères résidant en France, 44th edition for 2013 edited in 2012, 2371 p., 31&nbsp;cm, {{ISBN|978-2-85784-053-4}} .

==References==
{{Reflist}}

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{{Succession box|
title=[[List of Prefects of French Guiana|Prefect of French Guiana]]|
before=[[Pierre Dartout]]|
years=1997–1999|
after= {{Interlanguage link|Henri Masse|fr|3=Henri Masse (préfet)}}
}}
{{Succession box|
title= Prefect of [[Ardèche]]|
before=[[Raphaël Bartolt]]|
years=1999–2002|
after= [[Jean-François Kraft]]
}}
{{Succession box|
title=[[List of colonial and departmental heads of Guadeloupe|Prefect of Guadeloupe]]|
before= [[Jean-François Carenco]]|
years=2002–2004|
after= {{Interlanguage link|Paul Girot de Langlade|fr}}
}}
{{Succession box|
|title=[[Prefect of Réunion]]|
before= [[Gonthier Friederici]] |
years=2004–2005|
after= {{Interlanguage link|Laurent Cayrel|fr}}
}}
{{Succession box|
title=Prefect of [[Alpes-Maritimes]]|
before= {{Interlanguage link|Pierre Breuil|fr}} |
years=2006–2008|
after= [[Francis Lamy]]
}}
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[[Category:Sciences Po Aix alumni]]
[[Category:Prefects of French Guiana]]
[[Category:Prefects of Réunion]]
[[Category:Prefects of Guadeloupe]]
[[Category:Prefects of Ardèche]]
[[Category:Prefects of Alpes-Maritimes]]
[[Category:Prefects of France]]
[[Category:Officers of the Legion of Honour]]
[[Category:Officers of the Ordre national du Mérite]]
[[Category:Officers of the Ordre du Mérite Maritime]]
[[Category:Recipients of the Honour medal for courage and devotion]]