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Team

Two partners, a direct relationship

Your contacts are the people who carry out the assignment: no junior consultant takes their place without your agreement.

The partners

Portrait of Jonathan Boudry

Founding partner · main contact

Jonathan Boudry

Cross-border cooperation, governance, territorial projects

Jonathan Boudry began his career at the Mission Opérationnelle Transfrontalière (MOT) in Paris, where for four years he was head of legal expertise. He worked on structuring public cooperation (EGTC, local cross-border groupings, INTERREG programmes) in France, in Europe, in the outermost regions and in West Africa, for State field services, authorities of all sizes, foreign States and international institutions, including support to the Luxembourg Presidency of the Council of the European Union.

He then led, as head of projects, a €26m urban regeneration programme awarded the national EcoQuartier label, and for over six years acted as shared chief of staff of an inter-municipal authority and a municipality in the French Caribbean, with no director general of services in either body. When he arrived, each of the two bodies carried more than €5m of accumulated deficits. He led their financial and organisational recovery, in daily contact with elected members, State services and partners, and agreed an overseas recovery contract (COROM) with the State. He left in April 2026, after a new organisation was put in place and a director general of services was recruited in each body.

12legal and strategic assignments at the MOT, 2012 – 2016
6 yrs +as shared chief of staff, 2020 to April 2026
€26murban regeneration programme led as head of projects

Background

  1. Shared chief of staffInter-municipal authority and municipality in the French Caribbean, with no director general of services. Financial recovery, HR reforms, management of all services and of relations with funders, strategic reflection with elected members. Departure after a new organisation was put in place and a director general of services recruited in each body.
  2. Head of projects of a municipality in the French CaribbeanTown-centre regeneration awarded the EcoQuartier label, local urban plan, land regularisation, interim head of the urban planning department.
  3. Managing director of a cluster of transport and logistics companiesFort-de-France. Leadership of 40 companies and their institutional partners; inter-island cooperation strategies.
  4. Project officer, Mission Opérationnelle TransfrontalièreParis. Head of legal expertise: EGTCs, cross-border transport, territorial foresight, cooperation programmes in Europe, in the outermost regions and in West Africa, for the State, the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, the United Nations, the Principality of Monaco and several authorities.

Education

  • Sciences Po Paris, Master in Territorial and Urban Strategies (2010 – 2012)
  • Sciences Po Paris, undergraduate college diploma, specialisation in Central and Eastern Europe (2007 – 2010)

Teaching, publications, languages

  • Visiting lecturer, University of Pau and Pays de l’Adour (Master 2 in Cross-border and interregional cooperation)
  • Trainer for the CNFPT, on France–Italy cross-border cooperation
  • Author of publications on cross-border development and Caribbean cooperation
  • Fluent in French, English and Italian; fluent Czech, used in a professional setting

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Founding partner · organisation and human resources

Aurélie Peyrat-Viola

More than twenty years of HR and organisation experience in local government, including as deputy HR director of a large, newly reshaped French département, then five years as an independent expert for the French Development Agency (AFD) with overseas authorities.

6,000staff concerned by the workforce split between two authorities created by a territorial reform
172 → 123staff: managed workforce reduction plan in a municipality
2024municipality out of monitoring by the regional audit chamber
  1. Interim managerHead of cross-cutting projects in a large département.
  2. Independent consultant for the French Development Agency (AFD)Organisational and HR transformation and financial recovery of authorities in the French Caribbean.
  3. Deputy HR director of a large, newly reshaped départementJoint coordination of three departments (careers and payroll, employment and training, HR information system) and direct management of four territorial teams. Steering of reorganisation projects, budget and organisation monitoring, social dialogue.
  4. HR project manager, internal consultant, employment analyst, internal auditorWithin the HR department of a large département. Support for service reorganisations, design of staff working-time regimes, participation in major structuring projects (creation of a new département and of a metropolis).

Education: postgraduate degree (DESS) in Sociology and Organisational Development, Human Resources Strategy, Université Lumière Lyon II (2001).

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Reinforcements

A network of experts, called in with your agreement

When an assignment requires complementary skills, for example in the law of a specific country, in transport engineering or in HR support in a given territory, the partners call on senior consultants they are used to working with.

These experts are named in the proposal, with their role and CV. They work under the partners’ responsibility and are never substituted without prior agreement.

Why this set-up

  • A small team, hence clear accountability: you know who answers for the assignment.
  • Specialist skills without a heavy structure, hence controlled assignment costs.
  • Experts chosen for each assignment, not to fill a workload.

Transparency

A young firm, experienced partners

Herché & Barbé was founded in late 2024 and started operating in April 2026. The experience presented on this site is that of its two partners, before the firm was created. We present it as such, with period and capacity, so that you can verify it.

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