Valérie Pécresse
Valérie Pécresse | |
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President of the Regional Council of Île-de-France | |
Assumed office 18 December 2015 | |
Preceded by | Jean-Paul Huchon |
Minister of the Budget | |
In office 29 June 2011 – 10 May 2012 | |
Prime Minister | François Fillon |
Preceded by | François Baroin |
Succeeded by | Jérôme Cahuzac |
Government Spokesperson | |
In office 29 June 2011 – 15 May 2012 | |
Prime Minister | François Fillon |
Preceded by | François Baroin |
Succeeded by | Najat Vallaud-Belkacem |
Minister of Higher Education | |
In office 18 May 2007 – 29 June 2011 | |
Prime Minister | François Fillon |
Preceded by | François Goulard |
Succeeded by | Laurent Wauquiez |
Member of the National Assembly for Yvelines's 2nd constituency | |
In office 20 June 2012 – 20 January 2016 | |
Preceded by | Yves Vandewalle |
Succeeded by | Pascal Thévenot |
In office 19 June 2002 – 19 July 2007 | |
Preceded by | Franck Borotra |
Succeeded by | Yves Vandewalle |
Personal details | |
Born |
Valérie Roux 14 July 1967 Neuilly-sur-Seine, France |
Political party | The Republicans (previously Union for a Popular Movement) |
Spouse(s) |
Jérôme Pécresse (m. 1994) |
Children | 3 |
Education | Lycée Sainte-Geneviève |
Alma mater |
HEC Paris École nationale d'administration |
Valérie Pécresse (French pronunciation: [valeʁi pekʁɛs]; born 14 July 1967) is a French politician. She has been deputy of the Yvelines since 16 May 2002, Minister for Higher Education and Research from 18 May 2007 to June 2011 and Minister of the Budget from then until May 2012. She was also the Government's spokeswoman.
Biography
Pécresse is the daughter of Dominique Roux (CEO of Bolloré telecom since January 2007).
Pécresse has degrees from HEC Paris and ÉNA.[1] She was an auditor of the Conseil d'État until 1998, when she was designated Counselor of the President of the French Republic. She speaks French, English, Russian and Japanese.[2]
In June 2002, she was elected deputy of the Yvelines' second constituency. She was also elected regional counselor of Île-de-France in 2004. Pécresse was a national spokeswoman of the UMP, and spokeswoman of the party in the Yvelines.
On 18 May 2007, she was designated Minister of Higher Education and Research of François Fillon's second cabinet.
There, she has launched many reforms which have caused a great wave of strikes.
In 2009, the Académie de la Carpette anglaise, an organization that opposes the spread of the English language in Francophone countries, gave Pécresse the Prix de la Carpette Anglaise ("English Doormat Prize") for having refused to speak French at international meetings in Brussels, Belgium; Pécresse had stated that English was the easiest means of communication.[3]
After the defeat of Nicolas Sarkozy in the French presidential election of 2012, Pécresse remains a key member of the Union for a Popular Movement (UMP in French).
In 2016 Republican presidential primary she endorsed former prime minister Alain Juppe.
Political career
Governmental function
Government's spokeswoman : 2011-2012.
Ministre of Budget, Public accounts and State reform : 2011-2012.
Minister of Higher Education and Research : 2007-2011.
Electoral mandates
National Assembly of France
Member of the National Assembly of France for Yvelines (2nd constituency) : 2002–2007 (Became minister in 2007). Elected in 2002, reelected in 2007.
Regional Council
Regional councillor of Île-de-France : Since 2004. Reelected in 2010.
References
- ↑ (in French) Valérie Pécresse, la guerrière
- ↑ Valérie Pécresse :Et Dieu créa la femme, Le nouvel economiste
- ↑ Schofiel, Hugh (22 January 2009). "New lingua franca upsets French". BBC News. Retrieved 25 January 2009.
External links
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Valérie Pécresse. |
- Biography
- (in French) interview of Valérie Pécresse for a student TV during the strike of university teacher in February 2009
Political offices | ||
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Preceded by Jean-Paul Huchon |
President of the Regional Council of Île-de-France 2015–Present |
Succeeded by Incumbent |
Preceded by François Goulard |
Minister of Higher Education and Research 2007–2011 |
Succeeded by Laurent Wauquiez |
Preceded by François Baroin |
Minister of the Budget 2011–2012 |
Succeeded by Jérôme Cahuzac |