Bruno Le Maire | |
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Member of the French National Assembly for Eure | |
Assumed office 20 June 2012 |
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Preceded by | Guy Lefrand |
French Minister of Agriculture | |
In office 23 June 2009 – 15 May 2012 |
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President | Nicolas Sarkozy |
Prime Minister | François Fillon |
Preceded by | Michel Barnier |
Succeeded by | Stéphane Le Foll |
Personal details | |
Born |
Neuilly-sur-Seine, France |
15 April 1969
Nationality | French |
Political party | The Republicans |
Alma mater |
École Normale Supérieure Sciences Po, ÉNA |
Bruno Le Maire (born 15 April 1969) is a French politician. He served as the French Minister of Food, Agriculture and Fishing from 2009 to 2012.
Bruno Le Maire was born on 15 April 1969 in Neuilly-sur-Seine. He is a graduate of the École Normale Supérieure, Sciences Po and the École nationale d’administration. He speaks French, English and German.
From 2002 to 2004, he worked as an advisor to Dominique de Villepin in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. In 2004, he moved to the Ministry of the Interior. In 2005, he became the political advisor to the Prime Minister. From 2007 to 2008, he was a member of the National Assembly of France, representing the Eure department. From December 2008 to 2009, he served as Secretary of State in charge of European Affairs in the François Fillon government.
Since 2008, he has served as a political advisor for the Union for a Popular Movement. He also serves as a council member of Evreux. In June 2009, he became the new Minister of Food, Agriculture and Fishing. During his tenure at the Ministry, he created a new framework to modernize French agriculture, food and fishing. He also hosted the G20 Agriculture summit in 2011, which resulted in the creation of AMIS (Agricultural Market Information System). The main objective of AMIS is to monitor the global agricultural market under a rotating presidency. An intervention Forum can be convoked if the presiding country judges it necessary.
On August 2012, he announced that he would be a candidate for the presidency of the Union for a Popular Movement, competing against former Prime Minister François Fillon, Secretary General Jean-François Copé and former Minister for Ecology Nathalie Kosciusko-Morizet. He decided to develop a reformist line and to focus his campaign around four main axes: