PRIME MINISTER – M. François FILLON
MINISTERS :
| Ministre d’Etat, Minister for Ecology, and Sustainable Development and Town and Country Planning (Regional Development) | M. Alain JUPPE |
| Minister for the Economy, Finance and Employment | M. Jean-Louis BORLOO |
| Minister of the Interior, Overseas France and Local Authorities | Mme Michèle ALLIOT-MARIE |
| Minister of Foreign and European Affairs | M. Bernard KOUCHNER |
| Minister of Immigration, Integration, National Identity and Co-Development | M. Brice HORTEFEUX |
| Keeper of the Seals, Minister of Justice | Mme Rachida DATI |
| Minister for Labour, Labour Relations and Solidarity | M. Xavier BERTRAND |
| Minister for National Education | M. Xavier DARCOS |
| Minister for Higher Education and Research | Mme Valérie PECRESSE |
| Minister of Defence | M. Hervé MORIN |
| Minister for Health, Youth and Sport | Mme Roselyne BACHELOT-NARQUIN |
| Minister for Housing and Urban Affairs | Mme Christine BOUTIN |
| Minister for Agriculture and Fisheries | Mme Christine LAGARDE |
| Minister for Culture and Communication, Government Spokesperson | Mme Christine ALBANEL |
| Minister for the Budget, Public Accounts and the Civil Service | M. Eric WOERTH |
MINISTERS OF STATE
| Minister of State, attached to the Prime Minister, Responsible for Relations with Parliament | M. Roger KAROUTCHI |
| Minister of State, attached to the Prime Minister, responsible for Forward Planning and Assessment of Public Policies | M. Eric BESSON |
| Minister of State, attached to the Ministre d’Etat, Minister of Ecology and Sustainable Development and Town and Country Planning (Regional Development), responsible for Transport | M. Dominique BUSSEREAU |
| Minister of State, attached to the Minister of Foreign and European Affairs, responsible for European Affairs | M. Jean-Pierre JOUYET |
HIGH COMMISSIONER
| High Commissioner for Active Solidarity against Poverty | M. Martin HIRSCH |
Source: Matignon
Born on 4 March 1954 in Le Mans (Sarthe)
Education
Master’s degree in public law, DEA [postgraduate pre-PhD diploma] in public law and political science
Career
Head of the Service des Travaux législatifs et parlementaires (legislation department) in the private office of the Minister of Industry, 1981
Special assistant in the private office of the Minister of Transport, 1978-1980, then of the Minister of Defence, 1980-1981
Parliamentary assistant, 1976-1977
Elective offices
Senator for Sarthe, September 2004-November 2004, re-elected on 18 September 2005
National Assembly Deputy for Sarthe, July 1981-April 1986, April 1986-May 1988, June 1988-April 1993, April 1993-May 1993, June 1997-June 2002 and June 2002-July 2002
Chairman of the Pays de la Loire Regional Council, 1998-2002
Member of the Pays de la Loire Regional Council since 1998
Chairman of Sablé-sur-Sarthe District Council (Sarthe) since 2001
Chairman of Sarthe General Council, 1992-1998
Member of Solesmes Municipal Council (Sarthe) since 2001
Deputy Mayor then Mayor of Sablé-sur-Sarthe, 1983-2001
Member of Sablé-sur-Sarthe Municipal Council, 1981-1986
Ministerial offices
Minister for National Education, Higher Education and Research, 2004-2005
Minister of Social Affairs, Labour and Solidarity, 2002-2004
Minister for Information Technology and the Post Office, then Minister Delegate with responsibility for the Post Office, Telecommunications and Space, 1995-1997
Minister of Higher Education and Research, 1993-1995
Political offices
Founder member of Union en Mouvement and Chairman of the France 9 think-tank since 2002
Rassemblement pour la République’s (RPR) political adviser, 1999-2001
Spokesman for the RPR’s executive committee, 1998
RPR National Secretary, responsible for local branches, 1997
Recent published works
Les retraites, Editions Michalon, 2007
La France en majuscules (with Olivier Dassault), Editions Plon, 2007
La France peut supporter la vérité, Editions Albin Michel, 2006
Source: Prime Minister’s website./.
Born on 15 August 1945 in Mont-de-Marsan (Landes)
Education
Ecole normale supérieure: agrégation [high-level professional teaching qualification] in classics
Ecole nationale d’administration (ENA), 1970-1972
Career
Inspecteur des Finances [auditor at the French Trésor, with special responsibility for the inspection of public finances] 1972-1976
Guest professor at the Quebec Ecole nationale d’administration publique (Canada) in 2005 and 2006
Elective offices
Mayor of Bordeaux (Gironde), 1995-2004, re-elected in 2006
National Assembly Deputy for Gironde, 1997-2004
Member of the Ile-de-France Regional Council in 1992
National Assembly Deputy for Paris in 1986, then 1988-1993, re-elected in 1993
MEP, 1984-1986, then in 1989
Second Deputy Mayor of Paris, 1983-1995, with responsibility for financial and budgetary affairs
Ministerial offices
Prime Minister, 1995-1997
Minister of Foreign Affairs, 1993-1995
Minister Delegate attached to the Minister for the Economy, Finance and Privatization, with responsibility for the Budget, and Government Spokesman, 1986-1988
Political offices
Chairman of the Union pour un Mouvement Populaire (UMP), 2002-2004
Chairman of the Rassemblement pour la République (RPR), 1995-1997
Acting RPR Chairman, 1994-1995
RPR General Secretary, 1988-1995
RPR National Secretary with responsibility for the Economic and Social Recovery, 1984-1986
RPR National Delegate, 1976-1978
Recently published works
Montesquieu le moderne, Editions Perrin, 1999
Entre quatre z’yeux, Alain Juppé et Serge July, Editions Grasset, 2001
France, mon pays : Lettres d’un voyageur, Editions Robert Laffont, 2006
Source: Prime Minister’s website.
Born on 1 November 1939 in Avignon (Vaucluse)
Qualifications
Doctor of medicine
Certificat d’études spéciales [specialist qualification] in gastroenterology
Diploma in digestive endoscopy
Career
Lecturer at the Harvard School of Public Health in 2003
Professor, Chair of Health and Development, at the Conservatoire national des arts et métiers [CNAM – national school of engineering and technology] since 2002
Senior civil servant and United Nations Secretary-General’s Special Representative for Kosovo (1999-2001)
Founder (1980), president (1980-1984) and honorary president (1984-1988) of Médecins du Monde [non-profit-making organization whose members, all voluntary and doctors and nurses, help in times of emergency and situations of inadequate medical care in the third world]
Co-founder and president of Médecins sans Frontières (1971-1979)
Gastroenterologist at the Hôpital Cochin in Paris (1975-1987)
Humanitarian missions to help victims in most of the major natural and industrial disasters and political crises since 1968
Elective offices
MEP (1994-1997)
Ministerial offices
Minister Delegate for Health (2001-2002)
Minister of State for Health (1997-1999)
Minister for Health and Humanitarian Action (1992-1993)
Minister of State with responsibility for Humanitarian Action (1988-1992)
Minister of State with responsibility for Social Integration (1988)
Other offices
Chairman of the ESTHER public interest group [“Together in a hospital network of solidarity in care and treatment”]
Founder-Chairman of BK Consultants
Member of the Board of Directors, PlaNet Finance
Member of the Honorary Committee, Children Action
Member of the Board of Directors, International Women’s Health Coalition
Founder-member of [the French humanitarian organization] “La chaîne de l’espoir”
Recently published works
Deux ou trois choses que je sais de nous, Editions Robert Laffont, 2006
La Fabrique démocratique, Editions Robert Laffont, 2006
Les guerriers de la paix : Du Kosovo à l’Irak, Editions Grasset, 2004 [published in English as “The Warriors of Peace”]
Born on 13 February 1954 in Montreuil-sous-Bois (Seine-Saint-Denis)
Education
Graduate of the Ecole nationale d’administration (ENA) (“Voltaire” Year)
Career
Head of the Service de l’Inspection générale des finances [audit department of French public services] since 2005
Lecturer at ENA in 1982 and since 2006
Lecturer (1996-1997) then Visiting Professor (since 2006) at the Paris Institut d’études politiques (IEP)
Member of the Board of Directors, France Telecom (2002-2004 and since 2006), and of the board of the Fondation nationale des sciences politiques since 2006
President of the Paris Club (2000-2005)
Non-executive chairman of Barclays Bank France in 2005
Ambassador with responsibility for international economic issues at the French Foreign Ministry (2004-2005)
Head of the French Trésor Directorate, Ministry for the Economy, Finance and Industry (2000-2004)
Deputy Principal Private Secretary to the Prime Minister (1997-2000)
Partner in [the French business law firm] “Jeantet Associés” [Jeantet and Partners] (1995-1997)
Deputy Principal Private Secretary (1991-1994) then Principal Private Secretary (1994-1995) to the President of the European Commission
Principal Private Secretary to the Minister of Industry, Foreign Trade and Town and Country Planning (Regional Development), then to the Minister of Industry and Town and Country Planning (Regional Development) (1988-1991)
Principal at the Service de la législation fiscale [tax legislation department] at the Ministry for the Economy and Finance
Director of Studies, Paris Institut d’études politiques
Inspecteur des finances [auditor at the French Trésor, with special responsibility for the inspection of public finances] (1980)
Political offices
Honorary Chairman of the Témoin Club since 1999
Chairman of the Démocratie Club in 2000
Recently published work
N’enterrez pas la France, with Philippe Mabille, Editions Robert Laffont, 2007
