Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
| Najat Vallaud-Belkacem | |
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| Minister of Education, Higher Education and Research | |
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Assumed office 26 August 2014 |
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| President | François Hollande |
| Prime Minister |
Manuel Valls Bernard Cazeneuve |
| Preceded by | Benoît Hamon |
| Minister of Women's Rights, Minister of City Affairs, Minister of Youth Affairs and Sports | |
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In office 2 April 2014 – 25 August 2014 |
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| President | François Hollande |
| Prime Minister | Manuel Valls |
| Preceded by | herself (Women's Rights) François Lamy (City Affairs) Valérie Fourneyron (Sports) |
| Succeeded by |
Marisol Touraine (Women's Rights) Patrick Kanner (City, Youth affairs and Sports) |
| Minister of Women's Rights | |
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In office 16 May 2012 – 31 March 2014 |
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| President | François Hollande |
| Prime Minister | Jean-Marc Ayrault |
| Preceded by | Catherine Vautrin |
| Government's spokesperson | |
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In office 16 May 2012 – 31 March 2014 |
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| President | François Hollande |
| Prime Minister | Jean-Marc Ayrault |
| Preceded by | Valérie Pécresse |
| Succeeded by | Stéphane Le Foll |
| Conseillère générale of the Rhône department | |
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Assumed office 16 March 2008 |
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| Personal details | |
| Born |
4 October 1977 Rif , Bni Chiker, Nador province, Morocco |
| Nationality |
 Moroccan French |
| Political party | Socialist Party |
| Spouse(s) | Boris Vallaud (m. 2005) |
| Children | Louis-Adel Vallaud Nour-Chloé Vallaud |
| Alma mater | Sciences Po |
Najat Vallaud-Belkacem (born Najat Belkacem on 4 October 1977) is a French socialist politician, who on 25 August 2014 was the first French woman to be appointed Minister of Education, Higher Education, and Research, joining the second Valls government.
Previously she was Minister of Women's Affairs (16 May 2012 to 25 August 2014, Ayrault government and Valls government), (2 April 2012 to 25 August 2014, Valls government), Minister of Youth Affairs and Sports (2 April 2012 to 25 August 2014, Valls government), and Government spokesperson (16 May 2012 to 31 March 2014, Ayrault government).
She was the spokesperson of Ségolène Royal's campaign during the 2007 French presidential election and again in 2009 for the 2011 French Socialist Party presidential primary. Since 2008, she has been a councillor of the city of Lyon, responsible for major events, youth and community life.
Second in a family of seven children, Najat Belkacem was born in the Moroccan countryside in 1977 in Bni Chiker, a village near Nador in the Rif region. Her grandmothers were respectively Spanish and Algerian. In 1982 she joined her father, a construction worker, with her mother and elder sister Fatiha, and grew up in the suburbs of Amiens. She graduated from the Institut d'études politiques de Paris (Paris Institute of Political Studies) in 2002. At the Institut she met Boris Vallaud, whom she married on 27 August 2005.
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