Geneviève Fioraso

Geneviève Fioraso ( born October 10, 1954 in Amiens, Somme ) is a French politician of the Parti Socialiste (PS ), and since May 2012 Minister for Higher Education and Research in the cabinet of Prime Minister Jean -Marc Ayrault.

Life

Studies, manager and local politician

After schooling Geneviève Fioraso holds a degree in English and economics and graduated with the degree of a Maîtrise from. Subsequently, she was a teacher of English in 1975 and the economy, before they left the teaching profession in 1979 to become press officer of the mayor of Grenoble, Hubert Dubedout. In 1987 she was a co-founder of Agiremploi, an association for the support of young people, whose manager she was then. Then she was between 1989 and 1995 Member of the Board of Corys, a company founded with start-up funds from the Commissariat à l' énergie Atomique et aux énergies alternative (CEA ) technology companies.

In 1995, she ended that activity in the private sector and was instead Cabinet Director, will talk of who had recently been elected mayor of Grenoble. After that she was from 1999 to 2001 Director of the Agence du numérique régional, a public establishment for building and managing a network of cities in the region Rhône -Alpes. After this task she was an employee of France Telecom where he is responsible for Health and Social Affairs in areas of growth markets.

During this time, Geneviève Fioraso began her political career in local politics and was between March 2001 and March 2008 Deputy Mayor and member of the city council of Grenoble and at the same time Vice President for Business, Innovation, Commerce and Crafts and a member of the Association of Municipalities of agglomeration Grenoble- Alpes Métropole ( Communauté d' agglomà Grenoble Alpes Métropole ). In addition, it was 2003 Chairman of the Corporate Governance Institute Institut d'administration des entreprises (IAE ) in Grenoble Président - directeur général and Sem Minatec.RTM Entreprises, which performs as a subsidiary to market the technology company Minatec.RTM.

MP and Minister

On June 17, 2007, she was elected as a candidate of the PS for the constituency Isère I for the deputies of the National Assembly in 2012 and re-elected. Since May 2012 her parliamentary mandate rests because of their membership in the government. During her Parliament membership she was a member of the Economic Committee and Vice -President of the Parliamentary Groups of Friendship with Cape Verde, Guatemala, and Portugal and Vice -President of the Parliamentary study groups for economic and social regulation in the wake of globalization, as well as for small and medium sized businesses.

In addition, it was again in 2008, Vice -President of the Communauté d' agglomà Grenoble Alpes Métropole, while by 2012 this time was responsible for universities, research, business and international relations.

Geneviève Fioraso, which also received a teaching position at the Institut d' études politiques de Paris in 2011, was and after the election of François Hollande as President and the appointment of Jean -Marc Ayrault as prime minister of this on 17 May 2012 Minister for Higher Education research appointed to his cabinet. It belonged thus to the 34 - member government Hollande, who is half women.

Awards

2013, it was anglaise by the Académie de la Carpette reprimanded for allowing the use of English in the University.