Charline Avenel (born 24 May 1978) is a senior French civil servant and the Rector of the Versailles Academy from 24 October 2018[1] to 13 July 2023.

[3] In 2008, she was appointed budget advisor to Valérie Pécresse, Minister of Higher Education and Research, then deputy director of her cabinet.

[5] She also created “Sciences Mômes”,[6] an operation aimed at opening the doors of the institution to the children of employees.

[7] She leaves her position in July 2023 to join the private higher education group Ionis.

Police and administrative investigation are ongoing, and it was found that several other parents[9] have been issued letters which, the French national education Minister, Mr Gabriel Attal, has called "disgrace and shameful".