Pascal Canfin

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Pascal Canfin (2012)

Pascal Canfin (born August 22, 1974 in Arras ) is a French politician (independent, until 2015 Europe Écologie-Les Verts ). He was a member of the European Parliament from 2009 to 2012 and again since 2019 .

Life and political career

Canfin attended the Institut d'études politiques (Sciences Po) in Bordeaux and received a Masters degree in European Studies from Newcastle University . From 2004 to 2009 he was a business journalist at Alternatives économiques . In 2007 he published the book L'Économie verte expliquée à ceux qui n'y croient pas (“Green economy explained to those who do not believe in it”).

Canfin joined the French Greens ( Les Verts ) in 2001 and chaired the party's economic committee from 2005 to 2008. From 2009 to 2012 he was a member of the European Parliament . He took third place on the list of the Europe Ecology party in the constituency Île-de-France behind Daniel Cohn-Bendit and Eva Joly . In the European Parliament he sat in the group The Greens / European Free Alliance , was a member of the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs and a delegate for relations with the United States. From 2009 to 2011 he was also deputy chairman of the special committee on the financial, economic and social crisis.

From May 16, 2012 to March 31, 2014, he was Deputy Minister for Development in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs under Laurent Fabius, a member of the French Ayrault government . He then worked as a consultant for climate policy at the American World Resources Institute . In January 2016 he became General Director of the environmental protection organization WWF in France. President Emmanuel Macron appointed Canfin to the Haut Conseil pour le climat (High Council for the Climate) in November 2018 . In the 2019 European elections , he returned to the European Parliament as a non-party on the Renaissance list , which was dominated by Macron's La République en Marche party. There he is now a member of the liberal group Renew Europe , is chairman of the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety and a delegate in the EU-Mexico Joint Parliamentary Committee and in the Euro-Latin America Parliamentary Assembly.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Composition du Gouvernement web portal of the French government (accessed on May 18, 2012)
  2. ^ Entry on Pascal Canfin in the database of the European Parliament
personal data
SURNAME Canfin, Pascal
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French politician (Europe Écologie-Les Verts), MEP
DATE OF BIRTH 22nd August 1974
PLACE OF BIRTH Arras , France