The French National Gaming Authority (ANJ) has appointed Pauline Hot as its new General Director.
Since January 2025, Hot has been serving as the authorities’ Deputy Director General of the ANJ following a promotion. She previously held roles at the Council of State, first as an auditor from 2020, then as a master of requests.
During her time at the Council, she worked as a rapporteur in both the sixth Chamber of the Litigation Section and the Administration Section.
A graduate of the École normale supérieure and the École nationale d’administration (Hannah Arendt class), ANJ took note of the strong academic background Hot is bringing to the position.
Hot is taking over from Rémi Lataste, who had been working at the authority for five years. He now becomes Managing Director at Campus Condorcet – a mulit-use inter-university campus for the universities of Paris.
Lataste wrote on LinkedIn: “In five years, we have built the foundations of impact regulation.
We have moved the lines on the various missions entrusted to the ANJ, in particular: Protecting minors and preventing excessive gambling, fighting against money laundering, illegal offer and sports manipulation and pivoting the Changing Gambling Market.”
“Nothing would have been possible without the exceptional human collective of the ANJ. Extraordinary women and men from different backgrounds, committed, demanding and creative.”
In March, ANJ published its official 2024 gambling activity report, which demonstrated an almost equivalent number of applications received compared to 2023.
Last year the organisation handled 1,541 mediation requests, which comprises approximately 88% of requests related to sports betting incidents.
The same year, France’s gambling industry also reported a 4.7% rise in GGR to €14bn in 2024 lauding online operators as key growth drivers for the sector and reporting a 12% rise in GGR to €2.6bn.
