Éric Besson
| Éric Besson | |
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Éric Besson, in 2010.
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| Minister for Industry, Energy and Digital Economy | |
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In office 14 November 2010 – 10 May 2012 |
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| President | Nicolas Sarkozy |
| Prime Minister | François Fillon |
| Preceded by | Christian Estrosi |
| Succeeded by | Arnaud Montebourg |
| Minister of Immigration, Integration, National Identity and Mutually-Supportive Development | |
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In office January 2009 – 13 November 2010 |
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| President | Nicolas Sarkozy |
| Prime Minister | François Fillon |
| Preceded by | Brice Hortefeux |
| Succeeded by | Vacant |
| State Secretary for Prospectives and Evaluation of Public Policies | |
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In office May 2007 – January 2009 |
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| President | Nicolas Sarkozy |
| Prime Minister | François Fillon |
| Personal details | |
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2 April 1958 Marrakech, Morocco |
| Nationality | French |
| Political party | The Progressives / UMP (since 2007) |
| Other political affiliations |
Socialist Party (1993–2007) |
| Spouse(s) | Sylvie Brunel (m. 1983–2009, divorced) Yasmine Torjdman (m. 2010-2015, divorced) Jamila Azeroual (m. 2015-present) |
| Children | 3 (with Sylvie Brunel) |
| Alma mater | Sciences Po |
Éric Besson (born 2 April 1958 in Marrakech, Morocco) is a French politician of French-Lebanese descent. He was Minister of Industry, Energy and the Digital economy under the Minister of Economy, Finance and Industry, Christine Lagarde and previously, from 2009 to 2010, Minister of Immigration, Integration, National Identity and Mutually-Supportive Development in the government of François Fillon.
He left the Socialist Party (PS) the day of the first round presidential elections in 2007 to found The Progressives, a social democratic affiliate party of Nicolas Sarkozy's Union for a Popular Movement (UMP). He has been Deputy Secretary-General of the UMP since 2009.
Eric Besson was born in Morocco. His mother is from Lebanon and his father, a flight instructor in the French Air Force, was killed in a flight accident three months before Éric's birth. At 17, he settled with his family at Montélimar, France and studied at École supérieure de commerce in Montpellier, then in the Institut d'études politiques de Paris. Besson joined the French car company, Renault, then worked for Challenges, a business monthly, before joining the Vivendi foundation.
Besson was married from 1983–2009 to Sylvie Brunel, a geographer and writer, former president of Action Against Hunger and they have three children. Their eldest child, Alexandra (born 1989), is a novelist.
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