Noëlle Lenoir

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Noëlle Lenoir (2015)

Noëlle Lenoir (born April 27, 1948 in Neuilly-sur-Seine ) is a French lawyer and politician. She was the first woman to sit in the Conseil constitutionnel from 1992 to 2001 . She was then Minister for European Affairs from 2002 to 2004.

Life

After the baccalaureate (high school) Lenoir studied at Sciences Po (Sciences Po), the diploma she received 1968th In 1971 she did her maîtrise at the University of Panthéon-Assas (Paris II) and in 1972 the DESS in public law at the Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne .

Noëlle Lenoir was an administrator in the Senate from 1972 to 1982 . Between 1982 and 1984 she was Director of the Commission Nationale de l'Informatique et des Libertés (CNIL, National Commission on Information Technology and Freedom). From 1984 to 2001 Lenoir sat in the highest administrative court, the Conseil d'État , and from 1988 to 1991 was chief of staff of the Minister of Justice Pierre Arpaillange . From 1989 to 1995 she was mayor of the small municipality of Valmondois in the Val-d'Oise department , supported by the Parti socialiste (PS).

She then worked for bioethics for Prime Minister Michel Rocard (PS) between 1990 and 1991 . During this time she wrote the report Aux frontières de la vie (To the limits of life, Paris 1991). In 1992 Noëlle Lenoir was President of the European Group on Ethics at the European Commission . From 1993 to 1998 Lenoir was President of the UNESCO International Bioethics Committee . There she was responsible for the Universal Declaration on the Human Genome and Human Rights , which was adopted by the General Assembly of the United Nations in 1998 .

In March 1992, the President of the National Assembly , Henri Emmanuelli (PS), appointed her a member of the French Constitutional Court, the Conseil constitutionnel , of which she was a member until 2001. Then Lenoir was again a member of the Conseil d'Etat (highest administrative court). She was also visiting professor for biotechnology law and European law at Columbia Law School in New York (2001–2002) and visiting professor for comparative constitutional law at University College London (2001–2003) and chronicler for the French magazine L'Express . From June 17, 2002 to March 29, 2004, Lenoir was Minister for European Affairs in the center-right cabinet of Raffarin II . In 2003 she was the government representative for Franco-German cooperation .

Noëlle Lenoir has been practicing as a lawyer since 2004, initially with Debevoise & Plimpton , before moving to Jeantet & Associés Paris in 2009 . Since 2011 she has been a partner at the law firm Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel in Paris. There she works in the area of compliance , international investigations, public law and competition law. At the same time, she has been honorary professor and president of the European Institute at the HEC Paris business school since 2004 . She is the founding president of the Cercle des Européens , a think tank for discussions on European issues.

Lenoir in 2008

From 2005 to 2007 Lenoir was the presenter of the program Les grands débats du jeudi ("The Big Thursday Debates") on the radio station BFM . Between 2006 and 2007 she was project leader on the statute of the European company , on behalf of the French Minister of Justice Pascal Clément ; the report was submitted on March 19, 2007. From 2007, Noëlle Lenoir was a chronicler of Europe for the French newspaper La Tribune . As a divers droite (i.e. non-party of the center-right camp) she was again mayor of Valmondois from 2008 to 2010. At the same time, she was vice-president of the communal association Communauté de communes de la Vallée de l'Oise et des Impressionnistes and a member of the management committee of the Association des maires de France ( umbrella organization of French mayors).

In addition, in 2008 she became a member of the Board of Directors of Generali Investments Europe . In a corresponding position, she also worked for the automotive supplier Valeo (2010–2019) and has been with the Compagnie des Alpes, a theme park operator, since 2013 . From 2012 to 2014 she advised the French National Assembly on the proposal of President Claude Bartolone as an expert in deontological ethics . Since 2017 she has been Vice President of the French Committee of the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC). From 2018 to 2019 she was president of the scientific and ethical committee of the online portal for the allocation of study places Parcoursup at the Ministry of Science.

Publications

  • La transparence administrative (The administrative transparency ; 1987)
  • Aux frontieres de la vie. une éthique biomédicale à la française (At the limits of life. a biomedical ethic "à la française"; 1991)
  • Les normes internationales de la bioéthique (The International Norms of Bioethics; 1998, 2004)
  • La Justice de Daumier à nos jours (The Justice. From Daumier to the Present; 1999)
  • Relever les défis de la biotechnologie ( Meeting the challenges of biotechnology; 2002)
  • La vie politique de Daumier à nos jours (The political life from Daumier to the present; 2005)
  • La Societas Europaea ou SE. pour une citoyenneté européenne de l'entreprise (The Societas Europaea or SE: for a European citizenship of the company; 2007)
  • Europe. mon beau souci. le blog de Noëlle Lenoir on the L'Express website

Further mandates and associations

  • Since 1994: Honorary President of Les amis de Daumier (The Friends of Daumier )
  • Since 1998: Member of the American Law Institute
  • Since 2001: Member of the Académie des Technologies

Honors

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Noëlle LENOIR , Conseil constitutionnel.
  2. ^ Noëlle Lenoir, partner. Kramer Levin.
  3. ↑ Noëlle LENOIR, Honoris Causa Affiliate Professor. HEC Paris.
  4. ^ Profiles: Noelle Lenoir , Bloomberg.
  5. ↑ deontology à l'Assemblée nationale: Noëlle Lenoir, Déontologue du 10 octobre 2012 au 16 avril, 2014.
  6. ↑ Natacha Lefauconnier, Laura Taillandier: Noëlle Lenoir, présidente du comité d'éthique de Parcoursup: "Notre mission est de réparer les ratés". In: L'Etudiant , February 23, 2018.
  7. ↑ Office of the Federal President
personal data
SURNAME Lenoir, Noëlle
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lenoir-Fréaud, Noëlle
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French constitutional judge and politician
DATE OF BIRTH April 27, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Neuilly-sur-Seine