George Pau-Langevin

George Pau -Langevin (* October 19, 1948 in Pointe -à- Pitre, Guadeloupe ) is a French politician of the Socialist Party (PS), deputies in the National Assembly, the lower house of the national parliament, for the 15th constituency Paris (75) and district councilor in the 20th arrondissement.

George Pau came with 17 years to Paris, studied after their first baccalaureate literature at the Sorbonne before turning to the law and studied at the University of Paris II. From 1971, she worked as a lawyer in the 20th arrondissement and engaged in the Mouvement contre le 1972 et pour l' amitié entre racisme les peuples ( MRAP ). In 1974 she married Philippe Langevin, an engineer of the DDE of Seine- Saint- Denis. In 1976, she was Vice President of the MRAP, from 1984 for three years President.

Simultaneously with its commitment against racism was Pau -Langevin in the PS active, for which she was in the Council of the 20th arrondissement elected in 1989 (until 1995 and again since 2008 ), 1992 for a term in the Regional Council of Ile- de -France. From 1994 to 1997 she was a member of the national party executive and national secretary for human rights.

From 1989 to 1993 and again from 1997 to 2001, she led the ANT, the Agence nationale pour l' insertion et la promotion des travailleurs d' Outre- Mer, a government agency that regulates the migration of French overseas for training and employment. In 2001 she became a member of the Paris city government of Bertrand Delanoë. In this position, she initiated the renaming of the rue Richepanse in the 1st arrondissement, which was named after Antoine Richepanse, the revolutionary general who had introduced as governor of Guadeloupe de facto slavery again; Since 2001, rue du Chevalier de Saint- George 's her name.

In the parliamentary elections in June 2007 Pau -Langevin candidate for the PS in the 21st electoral district, which covered much of the 20th arrondissement, in the first round of voting, just behind Raoul Delamare (UMP ), they in the second round but with almost 63 % of the votes to beat clear. She was in the National Assembly, among others, deputy leader of the socialist -led faction (SRC ), a member of the Judiciary Committee and legal policy since 2009, spokeswoman for the group. In the general election, 2012, she ran after the reorganization of constituencies in the 15th constituency which corresponds approximately to the old constituency and covers large parts of the 20th arrondissement. With 73.5 % of the votes in the second ballot she sat down against clear by Nathalie Fanfant (UMP ) for a second term.

Since 16 May 2012 as Minister with responsibility for educational success in the Ministry of Education under Vincent Peillon member of the French government Ayrault.