France’s gambling regulator has confirmed the appointment of Pauline Hot as its new director general.
Hot will take on the top job at the National Gaming Authority (ANJ) after serving as its deputy director general since January 2025.
She is replacing the outgoing Rémi Lataste, who left the regulator after five years at the helm to become the director general of Paris’s inter-university campus Campus Condorcet.
In a LinkedIn post, Lataste reflected on his half-decade in charge of the regulator, praising several successes the ANJ has achieved in recent years.
“In five years, we have built the foundations of impactful regulation,” Lataste said. “We have moved the lines on the various missions entrusted to the ANJ.
“A huge thank you to all those within the ANJ or among our various institutional partners, who have made these five years as exciting as they are useful. Long live the ANJ, which, I am sure, will go even higher, even stronger, even further.”