Corinne Lepage
| Corinne Lepage | |
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| French Minister of the Environment | |
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In office 1995–1997 |
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| President | Jacques Chirac |
| Prime Minister | Alain Juppé |
| Preceded by | Michel Barnier |
| Succeeded by | Dominique Voynet |
| Member of the European Parliament | |
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In office 2009–2014 |
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| Constituency | North-West France |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
Corinne Dominique Marguerite Lepage 11 May 1951 Boulogne-Billancourt, France |
| Nationality | French |
| Political party | CAP 21 |
| Spouse(s) | Christian Huglo |
| Alma mater |
Sciences Po Panthéon-Assas University |
Corinne Dominique Marguerite Lepage (born 11 May 1951) is a French politician. She served as French Minister of the Environment in the Alain Juppé cabinets 1 and II 1995–1997 and as Member of the European Parliament (MEP) 2009–2014 for the North-West constituency.
She is the founder and President since 1996 of the Citizenship, Action, Participation for the 21st Century Party (CAP 21). She is also co-founder of the centrist Mouvement démocrate and served as Vice-President for the party until March 2010, when she announced that she was leaving the movement.
She is the founding member of the CRII-VIE, the Association for the Study of the Impact of Genetic Techniques upon the Living.
Lepage was born into a bourgeois Jewish family in Boulogne-Billancourt, in the department of Hauts-de-Seine. She attended Sciences Po in Paris, where she obtained her law diploma; she started practising law in 1975. At the same time, she was appointed Maître de conférences (Note: the equivalent of a university lecturer), and later a Professor at Sciences-Po and Panthéon-Assas University from 1982 to 1986, and then at the Université de Paris at Val-deMarne from 1984 to 1990. She has taught at the Université de Paris at St.-Quentin-en-Yvelines since 2005. She is married and the mother of two children.
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