Nathalie Kosciusko-Morizet | |
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Member of the National Assembly | |
Assumed office 23 March 2012 |
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Preceded by | Guy Malherbe |
Constituency | Essonne 4 |
In office 19 July 2002 – 19 July 2007 |
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Preceded by | Pierre-André Wiltzer |
Succeeded by | Guy Malherbe |
Mayor of Longjumeau | |
In office 22 March 2008 – 25 February 2013 |
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Preceded by | Bernard Nieuviaert |
Succeeded by | Sandrine Gelot-Rateau |
Minister of Ecology, Sustainable Development, Transport and Housing | |
In office 14 November 2010 – 22 February 2012 |
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President | Nicolas Sarkozy |
Prime Minister | François Fillon |
Preceded by | Jean-Louis Borloo |
Succeeded by | François Fillon |
Personal details | |
Born |
Paris, France |
14 May 1973
Nationality | French |
Political party | The Republicans |
Spouse(s) | Jean-Pierre Philippe |
Children | 2 |
Alma mater |
École Polytechnique Collège des Ingénieurs |
Nathalie Geneviève Marie Kosciusko-Morizet (French pronunciation: [nataˈli kosjysˈko moʁiˈzɛ]) (born 14 May 1973 in the 15th arrondissement of Paris), often referred to by her initials NKM, is a French politician and the current deputy of the 4th electoral constituency of Essonne. She was mayor of Longjumeau from 2008-2013 and was an unsuccessful mayoral candidate for Paris in the local elections in 2014.
She has previously held the positions of Regional Councillor for Île-de-France; Secretary of State for Ecology; and Minister of Ecology, Sustainable Development, Transport and Housing. She was also Assistant General Secretary of the UMP and spokesperson to Nicolas Sarkozy in the 2012 presidential election. Since standing for the Paris mayoralty in March 2014, she has been leader of the opposition of the Council of Paris. From December 2014 to December 2015 she was Vice President of the UMP (renamed The Republicans).
Kosciusko-Morizet was born on 14 May 1973. She comes from a political family, the Kosciusko-Morizets. Her grandfather, Jacques Kosciusko (1913–1994) was an academic, a member of the French Resistance during the war, a Gaullist politician and former French ambassador in the US whose father-in-law, André Morizet, was a socialist senator and mayor of Boulogne-Billancourt. Her father François Kosciusko-Morizet (1940–2015) was the mayor of Sèvres. She is also the sister of Pierre Kosciusko-Morizet (b. 1977), one of the founders of Priceminister.com, the third ranked e-commerce site in France. According to genealogists, she is also related to Lucrezia Borgia from her mother's side, the Treuille family.