Chantal Jouanno

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Chantal Jouanno (2010)

Chantal Jouanno (born July 12, 1969 in Vernon , Département Eure , as Chantal Paul ) is a French politician ( UMP , then UDI ). She was Minister of Sport from 2010 to 2011 and a member of the French Senate from 2011 to 2017 . Since 2018 she has been President of the Commission nationale du débat public (CNDP; "National Commission for Public Debate").

Education and family

After graduating from high school ( Baccalauréat ), Chantal Jouanno completed a technical college degree in foreign trade, which she completed with brevet de technicien supérieur (BTS). From 1988 she worked as an export assistant for Africa and Latin America at the car manufacturer Citroën . From 1989 to 1990 she did an internship at the International Bank for West Africa (BIAO). She completed a degree in economic and social administration at the Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne with a maîtrise . She worked for the state energy company Électricité de France (EDF). Then she graduated from the elite universities Sciences Po and École nationale d'administration (ENA; graduation year 1999 «Cyrano-de-Bergerac»). During her training, she specialized in environmental issues. She was also a top athlete and is a twelve-time karate champion in France.

Jouanno is married and has three children.

Political career

She was appointed administrative officer in 1999 and initially worked as sub-prefect and office manager of the prefect of the Poitou-Charentes region . From 2002, she took on a consultancy role in the Ministry of the Interior at the Central Director for Public Security, where she later became the office manager for statutes and personnel issues in the main department for local authorities. She also worked as a speechwriter for the then Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy and also joined his party, the conservative Union pour un mouvement populaire (UMP). In 2003 she was a consultant in the General Department of the National Police and an advisor on sustainable development and road safety at the Ministry of the Interior. When Sarkozy was dismissed as Minister of the Interior in 2004 and elected President of the General Council of the Hauts-de-Seine department , Jouanno succeeded him as office manager. Sarkozy was elected president in 2007 and Jouanno took on a position as a consultant for sustainable development in the presidential office. In 2008 she became President of the Agency for Environment and Energy (Ademe) and a member of the Board of Directors of the Agency for Radioactive Waste Management ( ANDRA ).

Jouanno with the Prime Minister François Fillon (2010)

From January 2009 to November 2010 she was State Secretary for Ecology in the Fillon II government . In this position she was responsible for organizing the Grenelle de l'environnement , a round table on environmental issues. In the 2010 regional elections, she was elected to the regional council of Île-de-France . From November 2010 to September 2011, she was Minister for Sport in the Fillon III cabinet before resigning from this position as part of her election to Senator . In September 2011, Jouanno was elected to the French Senate to represent the capital Paris . In October 2012, Jouanno moved from the UMP to the Union des démocrates et indépendants (UDI) founded by Jean-Louis Borloo and positioned in the political center . From 2014 to 2017 she was chair of the Senate delegation for women's rights.

Chantal Jouanno applied for the candidacy of the civic camp for the office of Mayor of Paris from 2014; In their place, however, Nathalie Kosciusko-Morizet was nominated, who eventually succumbed to the socialist candidate Anne Hidalgo . For the 2014 European elections , she ran for the joint list of UDI and MoDem in Île-de-France, but missed entry into the EU Parliament. In the regional elections in December 2015, however, Jouanno was elected Vice-President of the Regional Council of Île-de-France (under Valérie Pécresse as President) through the joint list of center-right parties Les Républicains (successor party to the UMP) and UDI . In September 2017, she initially withdrew from politics and started working as a personnel consultant ("headhunter"). In February 2018 she was appointed to the board of directors of the French development bank Agence française de développement (AFD).

In March 2018, President Emmanuel Macron appointed her President of the Commission nationale du débat public (CNDP). In this position she should have headed the civil dialogue (“grand débat national”) with the yellow vests movement ; However, a few days before the start, scheduled for mid-January 2019, she resigned from this job after criticism of her monthly salary of just under 15,000 euros. However, she retained her position as President of the CNDP.

literature

Web links

Commons : Chantal Jouanno  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ CV de Chantal Jouanno, ministre des Sports.
  2. ^ David Douillet remplace Chantal Jouanno aux sports. In: Le Monde. September 26, 2011, accessed September 26, 2011 .
  3. ↑ Chantal Jouanno rejoint l'UDI, la droite crie à la trahison. In: Le Monde , October 21, 2012.
  4. ↑ Sophie de Ravinel: Hidalgo, Dati, Jouanno: des femmes à l'assaut de Paris. Le Figaro (online), September 4, 2012, accessed September 20, 2012 (French).
  5. ↑ Décret du 19 mars 2018 portant nomination de la présidente de la Commission nationale du débat public - Mme JOUANNO (Chantal). In: legifrance.gouv.fr. March 20, 2018, accessed January 9, 2019 .
  6. ↑ Thomas Kirchner: Macron's wife for dialogue resigns. In: sueddeutsche.de. January 9, 2019, accessed January 9, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Jouanno, Chantal
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French politician
DATE OF BIRTH July 12, 1969
PLACE OF BIRTH Vernon