Brune Poirson (born 1 September 1982) is a French politician of
La République En Marche!
Renaissance (RE), previously known as La République En Marche ! (frequently abbreviated LREM, LaREM or REM; translated as "The Republic on the Move" or "Republic Forward"), or sometimes called simply En Marche ! () as its original name, is a l ...
government
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of
Prime Minister
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Washington, DC
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, Poirson's mother was a paintings conservator and restorer and her father a computer consultant for the
World Bank
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. She grew up with her two little brothers in Apt in
Vaucluse
Vaucluse (; oc, Vauclusa, label= Provençal or ) is a department in the southeastern French region of Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur. It had a population of 561,469 as of 2019.''lycée'' in
Marseille
Marseille ( , , ; also spelled in English as Marseilles; oc, Marselha ) is the prefecture of the French department of Bouches-du-Rhône and capital of the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region. Situated in the camargue region of southern Franc ...
Aix-en-Provence
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,
London School of Economics
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, type = Public research university
, endowment = £240.8 million (2021)
, budget = £391.1 millio ...
London
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, where she was a legislative assistant to a
Labour
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* Childbirth, the delivery of a baby
* Labour (human activity), or work
** Manual labour, physical work
** Wage labour, a socioeconomic relationship between a worker and an employer
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Member of Parliament
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and researcher at Nesta for about two years.
In London Poirson met Sam Pitroda, then minister of the government of
Manmohan Singh
Manmohan Singh (; born 26 September 1932) is an Indian politician, economist and statesman who served as the 13th prime minister of India from 2004 to 2014. He is also the third longest-serving prime minister after Jawaharlal Nehru and Indir ...
in
India
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. She joined his
cabinet
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Furniture
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* Display cabinet, a piece of furniture with one or more transparent glass sheets or transparent polycarbonate sheets
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in
New Delhi
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in 2009. After that, she started working for the
French Development Agency
The French Development Agency (french: Agence française de développement, AFD) is a public financial institution that implements the policy defined by the French Government. It works to fight poverty and promote sustainable development. This pub ...
, where she coordinated projects for sustainable urban development and biodiversity conservation.
In 2012, Poirson and her partner created the CITRIX sustainable urban development working group, of which Hubert Védrine,
Brice Lalonde
Brice Lalonde (; born 10 February 1946) is a former green party leader in France, who ran for President of France in the Presidential elections, 1981. In 1988 he was named Minister of the Environment, and in 1990 founded the green Ecology Gener ...
and Sam Pitroda are stakeholders.
Poirson was then recruited by Veolia as director of sustainable development and social responsibility of one of its subsidiaries, Veolia Water India, in
New Delhi
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. In this role, she worked on drinking water distribution projects in the slums of large Indian megacities, particularly in
Karnataka
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and
Nagpur
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. Poirson then continued her career in the
United States
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, in
Boston
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, until 2016, where she worked in a green technology
incubator
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Biology and medicine
* Incubator (culture), a device used to grow and maintain microbiological cultures or cell cultures
* Incubator (egg), a de ...
.
Poirson is a member of the 2017 promotion of the "Young Leaders" programme of the France China Foundation.
Political career
Member of the National Assembly
Poirson returned to France in 2016 to engage in
Emmanuel Macron
Emmanuel Macron (; born 21 December 1977) is a French politician who has served as President of France since 2017. ''Ex officio'', he is also one of the two Co-Princes of Andorra. Prior to his presidency, Macron served as Minister of Econ ...
's newly-launched political movement,
En Marche!
Renaissance (RE), previously known as La République En Marche ! (frequently abbreviated LREM, LaREM or REM; translated as "The Republic on the Move" or "Republic Forward"), or sometimes called simply En Marche ! () as its original name, is a l ...
(later renamed La République En Marche!).
In the 2017 legislative election, she was one of two members of La République En Marche! elected to the
National Assembly
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in the
Vaucluse
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Government and military
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Nicolas Hulot
Nicolas Jacques André Hulot (; born 30 April 1955) is a French journalist and environmental activist. He is the founder and honorary president of the Nicolas Hulot Foundation, an environmental group established in 1990.
Hulot ran as a candida ...
Adrien Morenas
Adrien Morenas (born 1 January 1982) is a French osteopath and politician of La République En Marche! (LREM) who served as a member of the National Assembly (France), National Assembly from 2017 until 2020, representing Vaucluse's 3rd constituency ...
.
Upon taking office, Hulot announced that Poirson would be in charge of policies related to the sea, biodiversity and the ocean; he would also delegate her the questions discussed at a European level. She attended the vast majority of the Councils of Energy and Environment Ministers, covering topics as diverse as the
circular economy
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, the reform of the European electricity market, the governance of Energy union and climate, as well as the carbon emission trading.
On 14 March 2020, Poirson was the second French government official to test positive for
COVID-19
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. She left the executive on 3 July 2020, at the end of the second Philippe government. She subsequently returned to the National Assembly until her resignation in 2021.
Career after politics
In 2021, Poirson was appointed advisor on sustainable development to Accor CEO
Sébastien Bazin
Sébastien Bazin (born 9 November 1961) is a French businessman. He is the chairman and chief executive officer of AccorHotels (; ). As CEO of Accor, he has committed to the UN's HeForShe campaign that seeks to promote women's and men's rights by ...
Le Figaro
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