Patrice Duhamel (born 12 December 1945), in Boulogne-Billancourt, is a French journalist and author.
After starting his career at ORTF, he worked at TF1, then RMC before returning to France 5.
Patrice Duhamel served as program director at France Inter, deputy editor of Figaro Magazine, and later as general director of France Télévisions.
Over the course of his career, Duhamel has interviewed eight French presidents and 24 prime ministers. His new memoir, Le chat et le renard (The Cat and the Fox), provides a behind-the-scenes look at French political leaders and the relationships between them.
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Early life and education
Brother of journalist Alain Duhamel and pediatrician Jean-François Duhamel, he is also the uncle of Amélie Oudéa-Castéra, Minister of Sports and the Olympic and Paralympic Games between 2022 and 2024. He had five sons: Jean, Nicolas, Alexandre, Benjamin, and Raphaël. He was partnered with Nathalie Saint-Cricq, former head of the political department of France 2, and whose family was the majority shareholder of the groupe Nouvelle République du Centre-Ouest. Their son, Benjamin Duhamel, worked as a political journalist at BFM TV alongside his uncle, Alain, who was an editorialist there.