Jean-Michel Blanquer

Jean-Michel Blanquer (2017)

Jean-Michel Blanquer (pronunciation: [blɑ̃'kɛʀ] ; born December 4, 1964 in Paris ) is a French lawyer, university professor and politician ( LREM ). From 2013 to 2017 he was director of the Paris business school ESSEC . He has been the French Minister of Education since May 2017 .

Life

Blanquer attended the Catholic private school Collège Stanislas in Paris. He was a classmate of François Baroin , whom he describes as his "almost brother". With Baroin and Richard Senghor (great-nephew of Senegalese President Léopold Senghor ), Blanquer initiated a "Declaration for the Third Millennium" in 1987, which was to be an updated version of the 1789 declaration of human and civil rights. He studied at the Institut d'études politiques de Paris (Sciences Po) and the University of Paris IV (Université Paris-Sorbonne), graduated with a DEA in public law and a maîtrise in philosophy. He received his doctorate in public law from the Panthéon-Assas University (Paris II) in 1993 .

From 1996 to 1998 he was Professor of Public Law at Sciences Po Lille , then until 2004 Director of the Institut des hautes études de l'Amérique latine (IHEAL) at the University of Paris III (Sorbonne Nouvelle). From 2004 to 2006 he was Recteur d'académie (Head of the Educational Region) of French Guiana . He then belonged to the staff of Education and Research Minister Gilles de Robien ( UDF ) before he took over the management of the Académie de Créteil (education region east of Paris) under Education Minister Xavier Darcos ( UMP ) . From 2009 to 2012 he was General Director for Schools in the French Ministry of Education under Luc Chatel (UMP). Blanquer applied unsuccessfully for the post of director of the Parisian elite university Sciences Po, but in 2013 he became director of the business school École supérieure des sciences économiques et commerciales (ESSEC), which is also one of the renowned grandes écoles . He led it until he switched to politics in 2017.

President Emmanuel Macron appointed the then non-party Blanquer as Minister of Education in the Philippe I cabinet on May 17, 2017 . Blanquer is assigned to the right-hand side of the political spectrum and is close to the economically liberal think tank Institut Montaigne . In October 2017 he joined Macron's La République en Marche (LREM) party. He also retained his post in the Philippe II cabinet , with the youth division added to his ministry in October 2018. In the Castex cabinet, which has been in office since July 2020 , Blanquer is Minister for Education, Youth and Sport.

Web links

Commons : Jean-Michel Blanquer  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Jean-Michel Blanquer, un spécialiste marqué à droite à l'éducation nationale , on lemonde.fr, 17 May 2017 (French)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Jean-Michel Blanquer, hyper-recteur. In: Le Monde , October 22, 2009.
2. ↑ La Declaration de 1789 revue et corrigée par trois jeunes Parisiens. In: Le Monde , February 4, 1987.
3. ^ Marie Piquemal: Jean-Michel Blanquer, un ministre de l'Education classé à droite. In: Liberation , May 17, 2017.
4. ↑ Ismaël Halissat: Education: le libéral Institut Montaigne, maître à penser de Macron. In: Liberation , June 7, 2017.
5. ↑ Le Monde: La liste complète du gouvernement d'Edouard Philippe (French)