Rama Yade

Rama Yade ( born December 13, 1976 in Dakar; actually Ramatoulaye Yade - Zimet; native Mame Ramatoulaye Yade ) is a French politician of the FPA (formerly UMP). Since June 2007 she was State Secretary in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, with responsibility for Foreign Affairs and Human Rights. Following a cabinet reshuffle in June 2009, she was Secretary of State for Sport.

Rama Yade was born in 1976 as the daughter of a senior advisor to the Senegalese President Leopold Sedar Senghor and a professor in Dakar. The family moved due to the activity of the father in the diplomatic service after Colombes in France when Yade was eleven years old. After her father's return to Senegal she remained with her mother and three sisters in the suburb where she grew up also. Although she is Muslim, she went to a Catholic school. In 1994 she graduated from her high school. She then studied at the Institut d' études politiques de Paris ( IEP).

In 2002, she successfully completed the selection process for a job in the administration of the French Senate. Your work for the Senate was from 2005 to 2006 interrupted by a period as Deputy Program Director, and later communications director of the TV channel "Public Senate " of the Senate. On 19 June 2007 she was appointed State Secretary to the Foreign Minister.

Her political career began during action in the Senate. In 2005, she joined the UMP, although, now married to Joseph Zimet the Socialists, had rather left leanings. In her party she was promoted and soon rose to the National Secretary for the French language. On 14 January 2007 she gave a speech that impressed, among other listeners the then party leader Nicolas Sarkozy, who later appointed to one of the spokespeople for the UMP in his presidential campaign on a party congress in Versailles.

With clear statements on human rights violations they had repeatedly brought Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner and President Sarkozy over government guests about the Libyan leader Muammar al - Gaddafi in embarrassment. This is seen as the reason for her transfer to the post of Secretary of State for Sport in a cabinet reshuffle in June 2009.

In a cabinet reshuffle November 14, 2010 Rama Yade lost her position as State Secretary in the government of new Prime Minister François Fillon. From January to June 2011 was Rama Yade Ambassador of France to UNESCO.

In 2013, she was twice convicted for libel.