Pervenche Berès

Pervenche Berès ( born March 10, 1957 in Paris ) is a French politician (PS) and Member of the European Parliament. She is Chair of the Committee on Employment and Social Affairs.

After studying at the Institut d' études politiques de Paris (Sciences Po), from which she graduated in 1978, Berès Between 1981 and 1983 at the Delegation of the French National Assembly at the European Communities, then worked until 1988 in the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the National Assembly. From 1988 to 1992 she was a consultant of Laurent Fabius, who was President of the National Assembly at that time. From 1993 to 2004, Berès board member of the Socialist Party, where she was responsible for development issues to 1995.

In the European elections in 1994 Berès was first elected to the European Parliament. She became a member of the Group of the Party of European Socialists (PES ). In the European elections in 1999 Berès was re-elected as Leader of PS; In the same year she was Deputy Chairman of the Delegation of the European Parliament in the first European Convention which drafted the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights. From 2002 to 2003 she was the second European Convention which drafted the EU Constitutional Treaty, as a deputy member. From 2001 to 2008 she was a member of the city council of Sèvres.

After the 2004 European elections was Berès chairman of the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs, since the European elections of 2009, she is Chair of the Committee on Employment and Social Affairs. She is also a member of the Conference of Committee Chairmen and alternate member of the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs