Valérie Fourneyron
| Valérie Fourneyron | |
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Valérie Fourneyron, January 2013.
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| Junior Minister for Crafts, Trade, Tourism and Social Economy | |
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Assumed office 9 April 2014 |
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| President | François Hollande |
| Prime Minister | Manuel Valls |
| Preceded by |
Sylvia Pinel (Crafts, Trade and Tourism) Benoît Hamon (Social Economy) |
| Minister of Sports, Youth, Popular Education and Community Life | |
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In office 16 May 2012 – 31 March 2014 |
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| President | François Hollande |
| Prime Minister | Jean-Marc Ayrault |
| Preceded by |
David Douillet (Sports) Luc Chatel (Youth and Community Life) |
| Succeeded by | Najat Vallaud-Belkacem |
| Member of the National Assembly for Seine-Maritime's 1st constituency |
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In office 20 June 2007 – 21 July 2012 |
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| Preceded by | Patrick Herr |
| Succeeded by | Pierre Léautey |
| Mayor of Rouen | |
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In office 9 March 2008 – 27 June 2012 |
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| Preceded by | Pierre Albertini |
| Succeeded by | Yvon Robert |
| General Councillor for the administrative district of Rouen-5 | |
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In office 29 March 2004 – 16 March 2008 |
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| Preceded by | Richard Picot |
| Succeeded by | Christine Rambaud |
| Regional Councillor of Upper Normandy Regional Council | |
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In office 16 March 1998 – 1 July 2007 |
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| Succeeded by | Laurence Tison |
| Personal details | |
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Valérie Absire 4 October 1959 Le Petit-Quevilly, France |
| Nationality |
 French |
| Political party | Socialist Party |
| Profession | Physician |
Valérie Fourneyron (French pronunciation: [va.le.ʁi fur.ne.rɔ̃] ; born 4 October 1959) is a French politician. She is a member of the French Socialist Party and she was a former member of the National Assembly and Mayor of Rouen. Since 9 April 2014, Valérie Fourneyron is the Junior Minister for Crafts, Trade, Tourism and Social Economy in Manuel Valls's Cabinet.
Born to a middle-class tanner family of the area of Rouen, Valérie Absire grew up in a family with conservative views, which she shared as a teenager. At 14, she supported Valéry Giscard d'Estaing during the 1974 presidential campaign. This support was later used against her on various occasions by local political opponents. In the 1980s, her political views shifted to the left.
According to the French National Medical Council (Conseil National de l'Ordre des Médecins), she is a medical practitioner. From 1984 to 1989, she was a sport doctor in the teaching hospital of Rouen (CHU de Rouen) and then she became a medical inspector (Médecin Inspecteur Régional Jeunesse et Sports – MIRJS).
In 1989, she joined the Ministry of Sports where she was in charge of both the organisation and monitoring of the national sports medicine program and of the co-ordination of the Team Physicians of national sports teams. As part of her duties, Valérie Fourneyron helped draft the 1989 Anti-Doping Act. From 1991 to 1995, she was head physician of the regional center of sport medicine in Sotteville-lès-Rouen and Team physician of the French volleyball team. She was also Team Physician of the Rouen Hockey Élite 76.
She became politically active in 1995 when Yvon Robert, the Socialist candidate for the Rouen City Council, asked her to join his team. From 1995 to 2001, Valérie Fourneyron was first deputy-mayor in charge of sports and then first deputy-mayor in charge of city policy, health and security. In 1998, she was a member of an interdepartmental group that prepared a report on sports medicine and doping and she collaborated with the working group in charge of writing the new legislation regarding doping.
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