François Sauvadet (born 20 April 1953[1]) is a French journalist and politician of the Union of Democrats and Independents (UDI) who has been serving as the president of the Côte-d'Or department in eastern France since 2008.

Sauvadet worked as a journalist at regional daily newspaper Le Bien Public from 1977 until 1993.

[2] Sauvadet represented Côte-d'Or's 4th constituency in the French National Assembly from 1993 to 2016, when he resigned to focus on activities in regional politics.

Ahead of the 2012 French presidential election, he endorsed Nicolas Sarkozy as the center-right parties' joint candidate.

On July 27, 2021, he was elected head of the Assemblée des départements de France.