Thierry Coste

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Thierry Coste is a French lobbyist born in Poligny, Jura, France. He is also a political adviser to the Fédération nationale des cheurs (FNC) and secretary general of the Guillaume Tell Committee, which supports users of firearms in France. He is also the founder of the Lobbying et Stratégies firm, whose clients are the Fédération française des industriels charcutiers caterers (FICT) or the Fédération française de golf (FFG).

Biography

Origins and first professional career
Thierry Coste is son of a soldier; His brother is a colonel in the Foreign Legion. After studying agricultural high school near Besançon, he bought some land in Haute-Saône at the age of 20 to devote himself for ten years to breeding associated with polyculture. In the early 1970s, he was a founding member of Peasant Workers, who campaigned to defend small farmers against FNSEA policy.

Lobbyism

First initiatives and political commitment
Disappointed by the FFSPN, he left this movement to create in 1988 Atout Vert, a consulting company on environmental strategies.

Starting in 1994, he opened and then directed Lobbying and Stratégies, his own lobbying firm located on rue de Varenne, which was responsible for helping PMI-SMEs located abroad to find the support of France's economic diplomacy against their competitors. It is an active relay of the federation of hunters, waste and animal fur processing companies.

Passed through Trotskyism in his youth, he claims to have kept since the habit of infiltrating the enemy to better understand it.

Thierry Coste has frequented and influenced political figures since the 1980s, on the left (François Patriat, Maxime Gremetz), on the right and even on the far right. He was the environmental advisor to several regional council presidents (Jean-Pierre Raffarin, Jacques Blanc or Jean-Pierre Soisson) and participated in the creation of regional environmental agencies in Picardie, Poitou-Charente, Midi-Pyrénées, Aquitaine and PACA.

Jean Saint-Josse (CPNT) campaign director in the 1999 European elections, the 2001 cantonal elections and the 2002 presidential elections, he co-led the 2004 Philippe de Villiers campaign with Guillaume Peltier. and that of Emmanuel Macron in 2017.

Since 2000

He is secretary general of the Guillaume Tell Committee, a French weapons lobby which he himself defines as . He represented the interests of the Italian gun manufacturer Beretta and the French Shooting Federation.

As a political influencer, he does not hesitate to stage himself and thus tells in an interview for L'Obs:

In 2006, he published a kind of lobbyist's handbook, The True Power of a Lobby: Policies Under Influence.

On the microphone of Secrets d'info on France Inter, he declared