Pervenche Berès | |
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Personal details | |
Born |
Paris, France |
10 March 1957
Political party | Socialist Party |
Alma mater | Institute of Political Studies, Paris |
Pervenche Berès (born 10 March 1957 in Paris) is a French politician and Member of the European Parliament for the Île-de-France. She is a member of the Socialist Party; part of the Party of European Socialists. On 28 July 2004 she was elected Chair of the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs. She was the rapporteur of the Special Committee on the Financial, Economic and Social Crisis (CRIS).
In 1995, she survived a near fatal traffic accident but lost half of her face, which was reconstructed by plastic surgery.