Gérard Biard (born 4 August 1959) is a French journalist. He is the editor‑in‑chief of the

satirical Satire is a genre of the visual, literary, and performing arts, usually in the form of fiction and less frequently non-fiction, in which vices, follies, abuses, and shortcomings are held up to ridicule, often with the intent of shaming or e ...

French news magazine, ''

Charlie Hebdo ''Charlie Hebdo'' (; meaning ''Charlie Weekly'') is a French satirical weekly magazine, featuring cartoons, reports, polemics, and jokes. Stridently non-conformist in tone, the publication has been described as Anti-racism, anti-racist, sceptica ...

''. He has been associated with ''

'' since 1992, when it was relaunched after a 10-year hiatus. He was in London for a conference when ''Charlie Hebdos Paris office was targeted in a January 2015

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. In May 2015, Biard and film critic Jean-Baptiste Thoret accepted the

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/Toni and James C. Goodale Freedom of Expression Courage Award on behalf of ''Charlie Hebdo''. Biard is strongly in favour of

secularity Secularity, also the secular or secularness (from Latin ''saeculum'', "worldly" or "of a generation"), is the state of being unrelated or neutral in regards to religion. Anything that does not have an explicit reference to religion, either negativ ...

. In October 2014 he participated in a conference of the French feminist organization ''Regards de femmes'' on the topic. He is a founder and spokesperson for ''Zéromacho'', an organization of men "against prostitution and for equality".Gérard Biard, Zéro Macho et la non-mixité
''Mediapart'', 1er septembre 2016.

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Living people French secularists French journalists Year of birth uncertain {{France-journalist-stub