Laurent Wauquiez
Laurent Wauquiez ( born April 12, 1975 in Lyon ) is a French politician. He is a member of the Union pour un mouvement populaire (UMP ) and was from June 2011 to May 2012 Minister for Universities and Science.
Background and education
Wauquiez comes from a family of industrialists from the region Tourcoing, who worked in the textile and shipbuilding industry. His father was director of Indosuez Philippe Wauquiez Bryggen and managed an investment advisory firm, and his mother Eliane Wauquiez -Motte is mayor of the village Le Chambon- sur -Lignon. Its origin is the region Haute-Loire in the Auvergne.
1994 Wauquiez wrote in the École Normale Supérieure in Paris for the subject of history. After completing his first degree and further studies at Sciences Po him succeeded in entering the École nationale d'administration (ENA ), the elite Administrative Sciences of France, where he was valedictorian of the senior year, 2001. In an internship at the French Embassy in Cairo and other visits he learned Arabic.
Entry into politics
Already in the 1990s, the social affairs minister Jacques Barrot became aware of Wauquiez, who supported him during the election campaign for the 2002 parliamentary elections later.
After the departure of the ENA he got a job at the Conseil d' État. When Jacques Barrot in 2004 moved to the European Commission, Wauquiez candidate for the vacant parliamentary seat in the National Assembly. He won the election in the Haute- Loire and was aged 29 at the time the youngest Member of Parliament. He took over projects for the then education minister François Fillon.
In autumn 2005, he joined Nicolas Sarkozy, at the time Interior Minister and Chairman of the Union pour un mouvement populaire, and was appointed to a party office. In 2006 he published a book about his time as a young member of parliament and the absurdities of political life in France, which he established himself as a media personality.
Government offices
After the 2007 parliamentary elections and the confirmation of his parliamentary mandate, he was appointed government spokesman in the rank of Secretary of State. Since the 2008 local elections he is the mayor of Le Puy -en- Velay, the capital of the Haute -Loire. In a subsequent cabinet reshuffle, he joined the Government Spokesman posts in the Ministry of Economy, Industry and Employment Christine Lagarde under, where he was secretary of state for work.
In November 2010 he was promoted to Minister Delegate for European Affairs under Foreign Minister Michèle Alliot- Marie, in June 2011 as a successor to Valérie Pécresse Minister for Universities and Science. With the dismissal of the Prime Minister François Fillon and his cabinet in May 2012 by the newly elected President François Hollande difference Wauquiez out from the government.