Léa Salamé

Léa Salamé
Born	Hala Salamé October 27, 1979 Beirut, Lebanon
Alma mater	Panthéon-Assas University Sciences Po Paris
Occupation	Journalist
Parent(s)	Ghassan Salamé Mary Boghossian

Hala Salamé, known as Léa Salamé, (born October 27, 1979) in Beirut, is a French-Lebanese journalist. She was a commentator on the television talkshow On n'est pas couché. She is an interviewer on France Inter's morning radio program and co-host of L'Émission politique.

Hala Salamé is the daughter of Ghassan Salamé, former Lebanese Minister of Culture and former Special advisor to UN Secretary-general Kofi Annan; her mother, Mary Boghossian, of Armenian descent, is the sister of diamond dealers Jean and Albert Boghossian. She escaped war in Lebanon with her family, settled in Paris at age 5 and obtained French nationality at age 11.

Léa Salamé studied law at Panthéon-Assas University, Sciences Po Paris and spent a year at New York University (she was injured in the 9/11 attacks).

Salamé began her career as an intern on La Chaîne parlementaire with Jean-Pierre Elkabbach. In September 2006, she started working for newly created French international news TV channel France 24.

Salamé joined i>Télé in late 2010 and hosted a political show in the context of the 2012 French presidential election. Starting in September 2011, she hosted the evening news with and in September 2012, a political debate program. The next year, she hosted Ça se dispute, with Éric Zemmour and Nicolas Domenach as commentators.

In August 2014, Salamé succeeded Natacha Polony in the duo of commentators which she formed with Aymeric Caron, then with Yann Moix, in Laurent Ruquier's show, On n'est pas couché, aired on France 2. In May 2016, she announced that she would leave to host a political show with David Pujadas starting in September 2016, in the context of the 2017 French presidential election.

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