Jean-Baptiste Djebbari (or Djebbari-Bonnet; born 26 February 1982) is a French aircraft pilot and 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 ...

(LREM). Djebarri was appointed as Secretary of State for

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on 3 September 2019 under Prime Minister

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. His rank was elevated to Minister Delegate under the leadership of Ecology Minister Barbara Pompili on 6 June 2020, when newly-appointed Prime Minister

Jean Castex Jean Castex (; born 25 June 1965) is a French politician who was the country's Prime Minister from 3 July 2020 to 16 May 2022. He was a member of The Republicans (LR) until 2020, when he joined La République En Marche! (LREM). Castex served fo ...

presented his

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. From 2017 until 2019, Djebbari was a member of the

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, where he represented the 2nd constituency of the

Haute-Vienne Haute-Vienne (; oc, Nauta Vinhana, ; English: Upper Vienne) is a department in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region in southwest-central France. Named after the Vienne River, it is one of the twelve departments that together constitute Nouvelle-Aquitai ...

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Early life and education

Djebbari was born in

Melun Melun () is a Communes of France, commune in the Seine-et-Marne Departments of France, department in the Île-de-France Regions of France, region, north-central France. It is located on the southeastern outskirts of Paris, about from the kilome ...

Seine-et-Marne Seine-et-Marne () is a Departments of France, department in the Île-de-France Regions of France, region in Northern France. Named after the rivers Seine and Marne (river), Marne, it is the region's largest department with an area of 5,915 square ...

, the son of a father of

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origin and a housewife. He graduated from the

École nationale de l'aviation civile 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 2005,

Technicien supérieur des études et de l'exploitation de l'aviation civile In France, the corps of Technicien supérieur des études et de l'exploitation de l'aviation civile (TSEEAC, in English Civil aviation opérations Technicians) of the Directorate General for Civil Aviation (DGAC) is a B-class job within the Ministr ...

training course.

Political career

In parliament, Djebbari served as the LREM group's coordinator on the Committee on Sustainable Development and Regional Planning from 2017 until 2019. In this capacity, he was the

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on a 2018 bill on the reform of the

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. From January until September 2019, he later served as one of his parliamentary group's spokespersons under the leadership of its chairman

Gilles Le Gendre Gilles Le Gendre (born 13 May 1958) is a French politician who presided over the La République En Marche group in the National Assembly from 2018 to 2020. He was elected to the National Assembly in the 2017 legislative election in the 2nd con ...

. In September 2019, Djebbari joined the

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and was appointed Secretary of State for Transport in the

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, led by

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. Early in his tenure, he led unsuccessful efforts to rescue French airline

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until a commercial court rejected financial rescue offers. He later led efforts on introducing a 2021 national law prohibiting domestic flights that can be replaced by a rail journey of less than two-and-a-half hours. Within his LREM party, Djebarri was in charge of advising chairman Stanislas Guerini on campaign financing ahead of the

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Political positions

In July 2019, Djebbari voted in favor of the French ratification of the

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’s

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(CETA) with

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. Following the

murder of Samuel Paty The murder of Samuel Paty (), a French Secondary education in France#Collège, secondary school teacher, took place on 16 October 2020 in Éragny-sur-Oise, a suburb of Paris. Paty was killed and Decapitation, beheaded by an Islamic terrorism, Is ...

in 2020, Djebbari said he was "largely in favor" of using artificial intelligence to fight terrorism on public transport networks if individuals' privacy rights were respected.

Life after politics

In 2022, Djebbari was appointed to the board of directors of hydrogen carmaker Hopium.Giorgio Leali (16 May 2022)
France’s transport minister to join hydrogen carmaker
''Politico Europe''.

References

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Early life and education

Political career

Political positions

Life after politics

See also

References