Bruno Le Maire

Bruno Le Maire ( born April 15, 1969 in Neuilly -sur -Seine ) is a French politician and was dated June 23, 2009 to May 15, 2012 Minister for Food, Agriculture and Fisheries in the government of François Fillon.

Biography

After schooling he received in 1989 the admission to study French literature at the École Normale Supérieure (ENS ) with a monograph on "In Search of Lost Time " by Marcel Proust in the new edition of Jean -Yves Tadie. After further work on contemporary literature, he completed his literary studies in 1992 with a degree and then completed studies at the Institute of Political Studies ( Institut d' études politiques ) in Paris and the École nationale d'administration (ENA ).

After completion of training at the ENA, he joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, where he was officer in the Directorate for Strategy, Security and Disarmament. This led to collaboration with the then Secretary General of the Präsidentialamtes, Dominique de Villepin. When he was foreign minister between 2002 and 2004, Le Maire one of his closest associates was during the 2002 crisis in Iraq until 2003. As de Villepin from March 2004 to May 2005 was Minister of the Interior, he was again at his closest staff.

After de Villepin became prime minister on 31 May 2005, Le Maire was initially the Political Advisor. On 12 July 2006, he was then nominated by the latter to the Cabinet Director, after the former cabinet director Pierre Mongin General of the RATP was. The Office of the Cabinet Director Le Maire retained until the end of de Villepin's office on 15 May 2007.

As a candidate of the Union pour un mouvement populaire (UMP ) successfully ran in the parliamentary elections in June 2007 for a parliamentary seat in the National Assembly. He took over the mandate in the first constituency of the department of Eure of his party colleague, the former President of the National Assembly Jean -Louis Debré, who was appointed President of the Constitutional Council. The parliamentary seat he held until January 13, 2009. At the same time Le Maire had until March 16, 2008, Member of the town of Évreux.

In April 2008, he became a political adviser to the UMP and then took over on December 12, 2008 by Jean -Pierre Jouyet the Office of the Secretary of State for Europe at the Foreign Ministry and the Commissioner for the German - French friendship, after the President of the Financial Market Authority ( Autorité des marchés financiers ) was. On 23 June 2009, he was appointed by President Nicolas Sarkozy as Minister of Food, Agriculture and Fisheries, succeeding Michel Barnier in the cabinet of Prime Minister François Fillon. , His successor in the office was in May 2012 Stéphane Le Foll.

For the Regional Council elections in 2010, he was elected on the list of UMP top candidate of his party for the Haute-Normandie region and received 1,502 votes there.

Private

Le Maire mastered French, English and German.

In the film La Conquête by Xavier Durringer about the presidential campaign of Nicolas Sarkozy in 2007 he was presented by actor Emmanuel Noblet.

Publications

• Le ministre. Grasset, Paris 2004, ISBN 2-246-67611-8.
• Des hommes d' état ​​. Grasset, Paris 2008, ISBN 978-2-246-73581-6. ( Awarded the Prix Edgar Faure 2008)
• Sans mémoire, le président se vide. Éditions Gallimard, Paris 2010, ISBN 978-2-07-013175-4.
• With Véronique Auger: Nourrir la planète. La Cherche Midi, Paris 2011, ISBN 978-2-7491-2156-7.
• Musique absolue. Une répétition avec Carlos Kleiber. Éditions Gallimard, Paris, 2012.
• Jours de pouvoir. Editions Gallimard, Paris, 2013, ISBN 978-2-07-013903-3.