Stéphane Vincent is the co-founder and executive director of La 27e Région, a ‘public transformation laboratory’ created in 2008, initiated with Régions de France and since joined by some thirty member local authorities and institutions, including metropolitan areas, departments and government departments.
With a university degree in management sciences, Stéphane Vincent initially worked for large private groups such as Canal+ and Lyonnaise des Eaux. In 1995, chance led him to social and digital innovation in local authorities, a field in which he has since specialised. He worked for seven years for the Limousin region, then seven years as a partner in a consulting agency in Paris. He is a 2005 winner of the German Marshall Fund. Stéphane Vincent participates in numerous practitioner collectives in France and around the world, including States of Change, created in 2017. He is the author or co-author of numerous books on new forms of innovation in the public sector, including: La transformation numérique des territoires (The Digital Transformation of Territories, 2007, Éditions Autrement), Design des politiques publiques (Public Policy Design, 2010, La Documentation française), and Chantiers ouverts au public (Public Works Open to the Public, 2014, La Documentation française). He is also one of the initiators of Les Halles civiques, a network of third places specialising in public, democratic and citizen innovation.
The 27th Region won the Design Management Award Europe and the Victoires des Acteurs Publics (Public Sector Awards) in 2014. In the same year, it was selected by Bloomberg Philanthropies (United States) and Nesta (Great Britain) as one of the 20 most inspiring initiatives in the world in the field of public innovation.
