François Lamoureux (17 December 1946 – 26 August 2006) was a French civil servant who worked on

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as part of the

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Career

Educated at the

Lycée Buffon The Lycée Buffon is a secondary school in the XVe arrondissement of Paris, bordered by boulevard Pasteur, the rue de Vaugirard and the rue de Staël. Its nearest métro station is Pasteur. It is named for Georges-Louis Leclerc, comte de Buffon ...

and the

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, Lamoureux began his professional career in the legal service of the

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in 1978. He was recruited by Commission Secretary-General Emile Noël to join the cabinet (personal staff) of

Jacques Delors Jacques Lucien Jean Delors (; 20 July 192527 December 2023) was a French politician who served as the eighth president of the European Commission from 1985 to 1995. Delors played a key role in the creation of the single market, the euro and th ...

in 1985. As deputy director of the Commission President's cabinet, he played a central role in advancing

, working on the

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and the

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. After a short period in Paris as director of the Cabinet of Prime Minister

Édith Cresson Édith Jeanne Thérèse Cresson (; Campion; born 27 January 1934) is a French politician of the Socialist Party. She served as Prime Minister of France from 1991 to 1992, the first woman to do so and only woman until Élisabeth Borne's appoint ...

, he returned to the Commission in

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. After a period working on the enlargement of the EU to include the countries of Central and Eastern Europe, he became Directorate-General for Transport and Energy of the European Commission in 1999, working closely with Commissioner Loyola de Palacio. He died of cancer in the summer of 2006. According to the wishes of his widow, Christine Lamoureux, his archives are deposited at the

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.https://archives.eui.eu/en/fonds/150770?item=FL, website of the Historical Archives of the European Union

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Obituary by The Guardian, a British newspaperObituary by European Voice, an EU newspaper
1946 births 2006 deaths French civil servants Political office-holders of the European Union Lycée Buffon alumni French officials of the European Union {{EU-org-bio-stub