Speaker

François BAROIN

President - Association of French Mayors

Born on June 21st, 1965 in Paris

Ministerial duties

• Minister for Economic Affairs, Finance and Industry (2011-2012)
• Minister of the Budget, Public Accounts, the Civil Service and State Reform, Government spokesman (2010-2011)
• Minister of the Budget, Public Accounts and State Reform (2010)
• Minister of the Interior and Town and Country Planning (2007)
• Minister for Overseas Territories (2005-2007)
• Secretary of State to the Prime Minister, Government spokesman (1995)

National functions

• Honorary Member of Parliament (since 2017)
• President of the Association of French Mayors (since 2014)
• Senator of Aube (2014-2017)
• First Vice-President of the National Assembly (2002-2005)
• Member of Parliament for Aube (1993; 1997; 2002; 2007; 2012)
• UMP Deputy Secretary General [French conservative party] (2004)

Local functions

• President of Troyes Champagne Metropole (since 2017)
• First Vice-President (1995-2001) then President (2001-2017) of the urban community of Troyes
• Mayor of Troyes (since 1995)

Professional background

• Senior advisor at Barclays / France (since 2018)

• Avocat à la Cour, French qualified lawyer (since 2001)
• Europe 1 Journalist (1988-1992)

Other commitments

• Member of Academy for Overseas Sciences in France (since may 2018)

• Adjunct Professor at HEC Paris
• Reserve Officer – Commander (RC)

University curriculum

• Diploma of Higher Specialised Studies (DESS) in defence (Paris II)
• Diploma of Higher Specialised Studies (DESS) in information and communications technology (Paris II)
• Graduate of the Institut supérieur de gestion (ISG), a French business school

Publications

• Une histoire de France par les villes et les villages [History of France through cities and villages] (Albin Michel, 2017)
• Un chemin français [A French path] (Lattès, 2017)
• Journal de crise [Emergency log] (Lattès, 2012)
• Chronique d’une différence [Chronic of a difference] (Ed n°1, 1998)