Antoine Magnant is a graduate of the French École Nationale d'Administration (ENA), Sciences Po Paris and the University Paris I Sorbonne. Except for two years at the National Museum of Natural History, Antoine Magnant has devoted his entire career to the Ministry of the Economy and Finance. In 1999, graduating from the École Nationale d'Administration (ENA), Antoine Magnant joined the Tax Policy Directorate. In 2003, he was appointed General Administrator of the Musée de l’Homme.In 2005, he joined the Public Finances Directorate General as head of the "tax approvals" office, then as head of the "strategy innovation synthesis" department. From 2008 to 2011, Antoine Magnant was successively head of the "tax control management" office, then deputy director of State accounts at the Public Finances Directorate General. In 2011, he was appointed deputy director of "transaction taxation" and then "personal taxation" at the Tax Policy Directorate. He then spent three years as head of the human resources department of the Public Finances
Directorate General. In 2018, he was appointed Deputy Director General of the Public Finances Directorate General and a member of the Directors' Committee of the Ministry of the Economy and Finance. He was appointed Director of Tracfin by decree on March 6, 2024, and took office on April 1,
2024.