Patrick Devedjian
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Patrick Devedjian, October 2009
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President of the General Council of Hauts-de-Seine |
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Assumed office 1 June 2007 |
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| Preceded by | Nicolas Sarkozy |
| Minister under the Prime Minister in charge of the Implementation of the Recovery Plan | |
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In office 5 December 2008 – 13 November 2010 |
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| President | Nicolas Sarkozy |
| Prime Minister | François Fillon |
| Mayor of Antony | |
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In office 1983–2002 |
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26 August 1944 Fontainebleau, France |
| Nationality | French |
| Political party | The Republicans |
| Alma mater | Panthéon-Assas University |
Patrick Devedjian (Armenian: Պատրիկ Դևեջյան; born 26 August 1944) is a French politician of the Union for a Popular Movement (UMP) party. A close adviser of Nicolas Sarkozy since the 1990s, he was Minister under the Prime Minister in charge of the Implementation of the Recovery Plan, a special ministerial post created for two years after the global financial crisis of 2008, since December 2008. He is of Armenian descent.
Devedjian was born in Fontainebleau, Seine-et-Marne. He is the grandson of the Turkish-Armenian zoologist and Ottoman bureaucrat Karekin Deveciyan. His father was born in Sivas, Ottoman Empire and arrived in France after escaping the Armenian Genocide. Devedjian received his early education in an Armenian school in Sèvres. He continued his education at the Panthéon-Assas University, where he was a member of the far-right group Occident. He was admitted to the Paris Bar in 1970. He became a militant in the Gaullist movement in 1971 and took part in the foundation of the Rally for the Republic (RPR) party in 1976.
In 1983, Devedjian was elected Mayor of Antony, a position he would hold until 2002 with re-elections in 1989, 1995 and 2001. In 1986, he also became a Deputy in the National Assembly from the Hauts-de-Seine department and was re-elected six times in 1988, 1993, 1997, 2002, 2007 and 2012. He was member of the Assembly Committee on Finance, and was rapporteur of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade Committee.
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