Olivia Grégoire

Olivia Grégoire (born 30 September 1978) is a French politician of La République En Marche! (LREM) who has been serving as Secretary of State for Social Economy in the government of Prime Minister Jean Castex since 2020. She previously served as the member of the National Assembly for the twelfth constituency of Paris since 2017.[1]

Olivia Grégoire
Secretary of State for Social Economy
Assumed office
27 July 2020
PresidentEmmanuel Macron
Prime MinisterJean Castex
Preceded byMartine Pinville
Member of the National Assembly
for Paris's 12th constituency
In office
21 June 2017 – 26 August 2020
Preceded byPhilippe Goujon
Personal details
Born (1978-09-30) 30 September 1978
Paris, France
NationalityFrench
Political partyLa République En Marche!
Alma materParis Nanterre University
Sciences Po
ESSEC Business School

Early life and career

Grégoire gained a bachelor's degree in history from Paris Nanterre University in 1999. She then graduated from Sciences Po in 2001, the same year as Emmanuel Macron, and completed a master's degree in marketing at ESSEC Business School in 2002.[2]

From 2002-5 Grégoire worked for the press office of Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin, and from 2005-7 as an adviser and strategist for Health Minister Xavier Bertrand.[3][4] Between 2007 and 2014 she worked in communications and marketing for the multinational companies DDB Worldwide, Havas and Saint-Gobain, and for the government communications agency Etalab. She founded Olicare, a communications and strategy consultancy, in 2014.[4]

Political career

Grégoire joined Emmanuel Macron’s En Marche! movement in March 2016, a month before it was publicly launched, and was involved in designing the movement’s policies on health-care.[2] In the 2017 legislative elections she was elected with 56.36% of the vote, defeating Philippe Goujon of The Republicans.[5]

Within her parliamentary group, Grégoire was one of the spokespersons. She was also a member of the Finance Committee, a parliamentary committee that scrutinizes public spending.[6] At the beginning of the term, Grégoire and Valérie Oppelt launched an informal group of around 50 LREM members in support of strengthening entrepreneurship.[7]

Political positions

In July 2019, Grégoire voted in favor of the French ratification of the European Union’s Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) with Canada.[8]

References
  1. "Elections législatives 2017". Ministry of the Interior (in French). Retrieved 19 June 2017.
  2. "Macron Generation Sweeps Out French Old Guard Promising Change". 19 June 2017. Retrieved 28 June 2017 – via www.bloomberg.com.
  3. "Législatives à Paris : un grain de sable macronien sur les terres de Philippe Goujon dans la 12e circonscription". 28 May 2017. Retrieved 28 June 2017.
  4. "UN PARCOURS - Olicare". Retrieved 28 June 2017.
  5. "Législatives 2017 : qui est Olivia Grégoire la nouvelle députée REM de Paris". 19 June 2017. Retrieved 28 June 2017.
  6. "Olivia GREGOIRE - La République En Marche !". En Marche !. Retrieved 28 June 2017.
  7. Jean-Jérôme Bertolus (19 October 2017), Génération spontanée: Entreprise, CETA, Grand Paris... Les groupes informels de députés En Marche se multiplient L'Opinion.
  8. Maxime Vaudano (24 July 2019), CETA : qui a voté quoi parmi les députés Le Monde.
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