Jeannette Bougrab (born 26 August 1973) is a French lawyer and politician of the UMP who served as the junior minister for Youth and Community Life in the government of

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from 2010 to 2012.'Bougrab incarnera la diversité', '' Journal du Dimanche'', 14 November 201

/ref>'REMANIEMENT - Jeannette Bougrab, de la Halde au gouvernement', ''

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/ref> Prior to this, she was the Chair of the

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(HALDE) from 16 April 2010 to 14 November 2010.''

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'', 23 March 201
'Jeannette Bougrab nommée présidente de la Halde'
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Early life

Jeannette Bougrab was born 26 August 1973 in

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(

Indre Indre (; oc, Endre) is a landlocked department in central France named after the river Indre. The inhabitants of the department are known as the ''Indriens'' (masculine; ) and ''Indriennes'' (feminine; ). Indre is part of the current administ ...

), to a

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father.« Jeannette Bougrab, 33 ans. Candidate aux législatives dans le XVIIIe »
, ''

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'', 2 juin 2007. She received a Masters (''

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'') in Law from the

University of Orléans The University of Orléans (french: Université d'Orléans) is a French university, in the Academy of Orléans and Tours. As of July 2015 it is a member of the regional university association Leonardo da Vinci consolidated University. History ...

in 1997. In 2002 she completed a PhD in Public Law from the

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as well as a Masters ('' Magistère'') in Economics Law.

Career

Bougrab has been an associate Professor of Law at

Institut d'Études Politiques de Paris , motto_lang = fr , mottoeng = Roots of the Future , type = Public research university''Grande école'' , established = , founder = Émile Boutmy , accreditation ...

and the Sorbonne. She also worked as a lawyer for the

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. Bougrab served on the board of directors of the

Union pour un Mouvement Populaire The Union for a Popular Movement (french: link=no, Union pour un mouvement populaire, ; UMP, ) was a centre-right List of political parties in France, political party in France that was one of the two major party, major contemporary political pa ...

(UMP) until 2007. She has been a member of the

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, the Administrative Board of the

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(AWI) and the diversity oversight of the

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(CSA). In 2010, she also became Chair of the Administrative Board of the Agence pour la Cohésion Sociale et l'Egalité (ACSE). In 2015, Bougrab was appointed at the head of the

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. Ahead of the Republicans’ 2016 primaries, Bougrab endorsed

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as the party’s candidate for 2017 presidential elections.

Personal life

She is an atheist and a supporter of French secularism. She has claimed that she was the companion of cartoonist

Charb Stéphane Jean-Abel Michel Charbonnier (; 21 August 1967 – 7 January 2015), better known as Charb (), was a French satirical caricaturist and journalist. He was assassinated during the ''Charlie Hebdo'' shooting on 7 January 2015. He wor ...

, who was director of the ''

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'' satirical journal and was killed in the ''Charlie Hebdo'' shooting in January 2015; however, Charb's family has strongly disputed this. Bougrab has stated to the media, "I always knew he was going to die like Theo Van Gogh. I begged him to leave France but he wouldn’t." She has also said that Charb never had children because he knew he was going to die, that he defended secularism and the spirit of

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. "I admired him before I fell in love with him and I loved him because of the way he was, because he was brave. He thought that life was a small thing unless he was defending his ideals," she said. Charb's family, via a statement issued by his brother on 10 January 2015, denied the existence of any "interpersonal commitment" between Charb and Jeannette Bougrab. In response Jeanette Bougrab authorized the release of recent photographs of the couple together.

References

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