Philippe Douste-Blazy
| Philippe Douste-Blazy | |
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| Minister of Foreign Affairs | |
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In office 2 June 2005 – 15 May 2007 |
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| Prime Minister | Dominique de Villepin |
| Preceded by | Michel Barnier |
| Succeeded by | Bernard Kouchner |
| Minister of Health | |
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In office 31 March 2004 – 2 June 2005 |
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| Prime Minister | Jean-Pierre Raffarin |
| Preceded by | Jean-François Mattéi |
| Succeeded by | Xavier Bertrand |
| Minister of Culture | |
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In office 18 May 1995 – 2 June 1997 |
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| Prime Minister | Alain Juppé |
| Preceded by | Jacques Toubon |
| Succeeded by | Catherine Trautmann |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
1 January 1953 Lourdes, France |
| Political party |
Centre of Social Democrats (Before 1995) Democratic Force (1995–1997) Union for French Democracy (1997–2002) Union for a Popular Movement (2002–2015) Republicans (2015–present) |
| Alma mater | University of Toulouse |
| Religion | Roman Catholicism |
Philippe Douste-Blazy (born 1 January 1953) is a United Nations official and former French centre-right politician. He has been Under-Secretary-General, Special Adviser on Innovative Financing for Development in the United Nations since 2008 and chairman of UNITAID since 2006.
He previously served as French Minister for Health (1993–1995 and 2004–2005), Minister of Culture (1995–1997) and as Foreign Minister in the cabinet of Dominique de Villepin (2005–2007). He was mayor of Lourdes 1989–2000 and mayor of Toulouse 2001–2004.
Originally a member of the Centre of Social Democrats (CDS), the Christian Democrat component of the Union for French Democracy (UDF) party, he later joined the Union for a Popular Movement.
A cardiologist of profession he became Professor at Toulouse Sciences University in 1988.
Born in Lourdes in the Hautes-Pyrénées, Douste-Blazy studied medicine in Toulouse, where he had his first job in 1976. He then worked as a cardiologist in Lourdes and Toulouse, namely in Purpan's hospital from 1986. He then joined the French Society of Cardiology. He became Professor of Medicine at Toulouse Sciences University in 1988. Since 2016, he has also been a visiting Professor at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
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