Christine Gavini-Chevet is the Rector of the Normandy Academic Region, rector of the Academies of Caen and Rouen and Chancellor of the Universities.
The rector of the Normandy academic region has her own powers and guarantees the unity and coherence of the State's word in the fields of competences shared with the regional authority.
In particular :
- vocational training, apprenticeship and guidance throughout the working life
- definition of the provisional schema of the formations of public institutions of secondary education
- higher education and research
- fight against school dropout
- public digital educational service
- use of European funds
- contribution to state-region plan contracts

The academic authorities of Normandy cover the 5 departments of the academies of Caen and Rouen.