Sylvain Raifaud is the president of Autolib’ and Velib’ Métropole
syndicate (SAVM), the local authority that
supervises the bike-sharing scheme Velib’. A telecom engineer, Mr Raifaud soon shown
great interest in the local public sector. He first
worked as a consultant helping local public
authorities with telecom public contracts before
being in charge of telecom matters in a local
public syndicate. He was elected president in
October 2020.
He joined the left-wing party and then the
ecology party as an activist before being elected
and holding various responsibilities in a Parisian
district for the past 10 years. He is also counseller
of Paris, and counseller of the Great Paris
Metropole area