Rama Yade
| Rama Yade | |
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Rama Yade in 2010
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| Regional Advisor of Île-de-France | |
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Assumed office March 21, 2010 |
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| Ambassador of France to UNESCO | |
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In office December 22, 2010 – June 30, 2011 |
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| Preceded by | Catherine Colonna |
| Succeeded by | Daniel Rondeau |
| Secretary of State for Sports | |
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In office June 23, 2009 – November 13, 2010 |
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| President | Nicolas Sarkozy |
| Prime Minister | François Fillon II |
| Preceded by | Bernard Laporte |
| Succeeded by |
Chantal Jouanno (Minister for Sport) |
| Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs and Human Rights | |
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In office June 19, 2007 – June 23, 2009 |
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| President | Nicolas Sarkozy |
| Prime Minister | François Fillon II |
| Preceded by |
Lucette Michaux-Chevry (indirectly) |
| Succeeded by | None (Position abolished) |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
13 December 1976 Ouakam, Dakar, Senegal |
| Nationality | French |
| Political party |
Union for a Popular Movement (2005-2012) Radical Party (2012–2015) New Centre (2012–2015) |
| Spouse(s) | Joseph Zimet |
| Residence | Bournard Street, 92700 Colombes, Paris, France |
| Alma mater | Sciences-Po Paris |
| Occupation | Politician |
| Religion | Islam |
Rama Yade (born Mame Ramatoulaye Yade; December 13, 1976) is a Senegalese-born French conservative politician and the author of several books. She served as the French Secretary of Human Rights from 2007 to 2009, and the Secretary of Sports from 2009 to 2010. She was the Permanent Delegate of France to UNESCO from December 2010 to June 2011. She was vice president of the centre-right Radical Party until September 25, 2015. She announced her candidacy in the 2017 French presidential election, but subsequently failed to amass sufficient signatures to stand. Her campaign was aimed at "the forgotten people" of France.
Yade was born in Ouakam, Dakar, Senegal. She comes from an educated, upper-middle-class, Lebou family. Her mother, Aminata Kandji, was a professor and her father, Djibril Yade, also a professor, was the personal secretary of Senegalese President Léopold Sédar Senghor and a diplomat. She moved to France with the rest of her family at the age of eight. After her father left the country when she was fourteen, she moved into a council flat in Colombes with her mother and three sisters. She was educated in Catholic schools and then at the Institut d'Études Politiques de Paris, where she graduated in 2000.
Yade worked at the Paris city hall and the National Assembly. She also worked for The Greens. She later became an administrator in the Senate in 2002. She joined the Union for a Popular Movement (UMP) political party in 2005 and became National Secretary in charge of Francophonie in 2006. She credits Nicolas Sarkozy's charisma with making her want to join the UMP.
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