Internal organization of the Superior Council of Notaries (CSN)

The services of the CSN are headed, since May 3, 2018, by Jérôme Fehrenbach, General Inspector of Finance. They are organized into five poles which are the principal functions of the CSN. 

To assist the Director General of the CSN in his missions, he can count on a team of nearly 120 permanent collaborators.

Sommaire

Director General - Pole Médiation

Jérôme Fehrenbach

Jérôme Fehrenbach has been Chief Executive Officer of the CSN since May 3, 2018. A laureate of the Paris Institute of Political Studies, a graduate of HEC, Jérôme Fehrenbach joined the General Inspectorate of Finance upon leaving ENA in 1996.


After four years at the IGF, he was posted to Brussels to the Directorate General for Competition of the European Commission. Between 2003 and early 2007 he was successively the technical advisor to the Minister for European Affairs, the Minister for the Civil Service and State Reform, then to the Prime Minister's Office. After working at the strategy consulting firm Roland Berger, he joined Caisse des Dépôts in 2010 as director of the banking clientele department, his activities then led him to support the notariat on projects and transformations from then on. Since November 2015, he was the general secretary of a large audit company.

Pole Transformation

Françoise Vichot

Françoise Vichot has been the Deputy Director General of the Superior Council of Notaries (CSN) since 2010. 

She is in charge of the Transformation division and a  member of the Management Committee. She is also responsible for the departments of economic and real estate affairs, communication, defense and promotion of the trademark, management and development, social relations, not to mention,  the General service intelligence service Notaries Info. After beginning her career in a communication agency, Françoise Vichot worked for ten years at Caisse des dépôts as communication manager for the banking department. She was also General Secretary of the Congress of Notaries of France for 8 years (2002/2009).

Pole Notarial mission

François Devos

François Devos is the Director of the notarial mission division of the Superior Council of the Notariat (CSN), Director of Legal Affairs of the CSN since 2018, member of the Management Committee. 

A former notary, he is responsible for the Career Management Office for Notaries, the Discipline, Training and Institutional Relations departments but also the Ethics and Deontology, Europe and International departments and the Compliance department. Me François Devos was chairman of the committee at the 109th Congress of Notaries of France in 2013 and general rapporteur of the 112th Congress in 2016. 
   

Pole Digital

Nicolas Kamiski

Nicolas Kamiski has been the Director of the Digital Division of the Superior Council of Notaries since July 1, 2025.

A graduate of the École Supérieure d’Ingénieurs en Informatique et Génie des Télécommunications (Fontainebleau), he began his career at Saint-Gobain, then held senior management positions in information systems at E. Leclerc, AFPA, Veolia, and Lacoste. In 2014, he took on the role of Head of Information Systems at Christian Louboutin. In 2019, he joined Albin Michel as Group Chief Information Officer.

Nicolas Kamiski

Pole General Secretary

Justin de Bailliencourt
Justin de BAILLIENCOURT

Justin de Bailliencourt was appointed Secretary General of the High Council of Notaries on 3 February 2025, after serving as Deputy Secretary General.

A graduate in Law from Paris II-Assas and in Political Science from Sciences Po Grenoble, he has held senior management positions in local government and later joined the French National Order of Pharmacists as Head of the “Community Pharmacies” division. He subsequently served as Director of Operations and Interim Chief Executive of a professional federation in the elder care sector.

The organizationnal chart of the CSN

The organizational chart of the CSN

GENERAL MANAGEMENT

Jérôme Fehrenbach

CSN Events Department

Liaison Assembly

    NOTARIAL TRANSFORMATION

    Françoise Vichot

    Communication Dpt.

    Brand Dpt.

    Notarial Economics Dpt.

    Management & développement Dpt.

    Social Relations Dpt.

    Notary Services Information

    NOTARIAL MISSION

    François Devos

    Legal Affairs Dpt.

    Career Management Office

    Compliance Dpt.

    Discipline Dpt.

    Ethics and Professional Conduct Dpt.

    Europe and International Dpt.

    Training Dpt.

    Institutional Relations Dpt

    DIGITAL

    Nicolas Kamiski

    Notarial Digital Dpt.

    Security, approvals and certifications Dpt.

    Operational Information Systems Dpt.

    Information Systems Studies Dpt.

    Information Systems Technology Dpt.

    GENERAL SECRETARIAT

    Justin de Bailliencourt

    Accounting and Finance Dpt.

    Internal Legal Dpt.

    Human Resources Dpt.

    General Services Dpt.

    Library, documentation and archives service

    ANGAL

    Joint committee

    MEDIATIONS

    Jérôme Fehrenbach

    Notarial Mediation and Arbitration Dpt.

    Service particuliers

    Notarial Consumer Mediation Dpt.