Delphine O (born 25 December 1985) is a French politician and a former member of the

French National Assembly The National Assembly (french: link=no, italics=set, Assemblée nationale; ) is the lower house of the bicameral French Parliament under the Fifth Republic, the upper house being the Senate (). The National Assembly's legislators are known a ...

, who represented

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. She is the Secretary General of the Generation Equality Forum 2021.

Early life and education

Born to a French mother and a

Korea Korea ( ko, 한국, or , ) is a peninsular region in East Asia. Since 1945, it has been divided at or near the 38th parallel, with North Korea (Democratic People's Republic of Korea) comprising its northern half and South Korea (Republic o ...

n father, Delphine O grew up in

Lyon Lyon,, ; Occitan: ''Lion'', hist. ''Lionés'' also spelled in English as Lyons, is the third-largest city and second-largest metropolitan area of France. It is located at the confluence of the rivers Rhône and Saône, to the northwest of t ...

. She graduated from the rue d'Ulm

École normale supérieure École may refer to: * an elementary school in the French educational stages normally followed by secondary education establishments (collège and lycée) * École (river), a tributary of the Seine flowing in région Île-de-France * École, Savoi ...

, in the Letters section in 2004. She also holds a diploma from the

New Sorbonne University The New Sorbonne University (french: Université de la Sorbonne Nouvelle, also known as Paris III) is a public university in Paris, France. It is one of the inheritors of the historic University of Paris, which was completely overhauled and rest ...

and she specialized in Franco-German relations and European politics at Pantheon-Sorbonne University. She was an intern at the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs at the French embassy in

South Korea South Korea, officially the Republic of Korea (ROK), is a country in East Asia, constituting the southern part of the Korea, Korean Peninsula and sharing a Korean Demilitarized Zone, land border with North Korea. Its western border is formed ...

between 2007 and 2008 and then worked at the

consulate general of France in New York The French Consulate General is the consular representation of the French Republic in New York City, New York (state), New York, in the United States. The consulate general is housed in the Charles E. Mitchell House, at 934 Fifth Avenue, between ...

from 2010 to 2012. Graduate of the

Harvard Kennedy School The Harvard Kennedy School (HKS), officially the John F. Kennedy School of Government, is the school of public policy and government of Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The school offers master's degrees in public policy, public ...

's Master in Public Policy (living in Iran for one year to write her master's degree: "Iranian Politics in Afghanistan"), she graduated in geopolitics of the

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. She works with ActionAid in

Kabul Kabul (; ps, , ; , ) is the capital and largest city of Afghanistan. Located in the eastern half of the country, it is also a municipality, forming part of the Kabul Province; it is administratively divided into 22 municipal districts. Acco ...

Afghanistan Afghanistan, officially the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan,; prs, امارت اسلامی افغانستان is a landlocked country located at the crossroads of Central Asia and South Asia. Referred to as the Heart of Asia, it is bordere ...

, on Afghan women's participation in local democratic life and on women's rights. After several stays in

Iran Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran, and also called Persia, is a country located in Western Asia. It is bordered by Iraq and Turkey to the west, by Azerbaijan and Armenia to the northwest, by the Caspian Sea and Turkmeni ...

, she moved to

Tehran Tehran (; fa, تهران ) is the largest city in Tehran Province and the capital of Iran. With a population of around 9 million in the city and around 16 million in the larger metropolitan area of Greater Tehran, Tehran is the most popul ...

for a few months in 2015. Back in France, she co-founded an online media, Lettres Persanes, which aims to better inform the French public on the news of politics, the economy, society and culture of Iran and sells services of counseling and training.

Political career

O joined

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 ...

from the creation of the movement. A member of the group of experts on international affairs who drew up the foreign policy program of

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 ...

, coordinator of the national mobilization of working-class neighborhoods, she has been involved in local actions in the

19th arrondissement of Paris The 19th arrondissement of Paris (''XIXe arrondissement'') is one of the 20 arrondissements of the capital city of France. In spoken French, this arrondissement is referred to as ''dix-neuvième''. The arrondissement, known as Butte-Chaumont, ...

since the beginning of the campaign presidential election: tugging, door-to-door, program development workshops, organization of public meetings.

Member of the National Assembly

O was selected as the

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Mounir Mahjoubi Mounir Mahjoubi (born 1 March 1984) is a French entrepreneur and politician of La République En Marche! (LREM) who served as a member of the National Assembly from June to July 2017 and from 2019 to 2022. From 2017 until 2019 was the Secretary ...

, who was elected to the

on 18 June 2017 representing the 16th constituency of Paris, and subsequently took her seat in the National Assembly on 22 July following the appointment of Mahjoubi to the

second Philippe government The second Philippe government ( French: ''Gouvernement Édouard Philippe II'') was the forty-first government of the French Fifth Republic. It was the second government formed by Édouard Philippe under President Emmanuel Macron, following the ...

the previous month. In the

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, O sat on the Foreign Affairs Committee. She was a

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of the Working Group on the opening of the National Assembly to society and its scientific and cultural influence, the mission of information on the universal national service and vice-president of the International Study Group on the Issues of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea). She was a President of

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Friendship Group and vice-president of

Turkey Turkey ( tr, Türkiye ), officially the Republic of Türkiye ( tr, Türkiye Cumhuriyeti, links=no ), is a list of transcontinental countries, transcontinental country located mainly on the Anatolia, Anatolian Peninsula in Western Asia, with ...

Friendship Group. Mounir Mahjoubi having left the government and automatically regaining his parliamentary seat, she left the National Assembly in April 2019. In May 2019, O was appointed Ambassador and Secretary General of the UN World Conference on Women.

Other activities

European Council on Foreign Relations The European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR) is a pan-European think tank with offices in seven European capitals. Launched in October 2007, it conducts research on European foreign and security policy and provides a meeting space for decisi ...

(ECFR), Member * French Institute for International and Strategic Affairs (IRIS), Member of the Board of DirectorsBoard of Directors
French Institute for International and Strategic Affairs (IRIS]).

References

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Early life and education

Political career

Member of the National Assembly

Other activities

See also

References