Axelle Lemaire
Axelle Lemaire | |
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Minister for Digital Affairs | |
In office 9 April 2014 – 27 February 2017 | |
President | François Hollande |
Prime Minister | Manuel Valls Bernard Cazeneuve |
Preceded by | Fleur Pellerin |
Succeeded by | Christophe Sirugue |
Assembly Member for Northern Europe | |
In office 20 June 2012 – 9 May 2014 | |
Preceded by | Position created |
Succeeded by | Christophe Premat |
In office 27 March 2017 – 20 June 2017 | |
Preceded by | Christophe Premat |
Succeeded by | Alexandre Holroyd |
Personal details | |
Born | Panthéon-Assas University King's College London | 18 October 1974
Occupation | Politician |
Profession | Lawyer |
Website | Official Website |
Axelle Lemaire (born 18 October 1974) is a French former
In May 2014,
In February 2017, she resigned from her ministry to run unsuccessfully for a second deputy mandate.[2]
Education and personal life
Lemaire was born in Ottawa, Ontario, to a French mother and a Quebecois father. After being brought up in Hull, Quebec, where she attended Collège Saint-Joseph de Hull, Lemaire lived as a teenager in Montpellier.
She studied
Lemaire lived in London with her husband and two children from 2002 to 2014 before relocating to Paris.[5]
Political career
Lemaire served as Secretary of the
Member of the National Assembly
In 2012 Lemaire was returned as
Having won 55% of the vote, during her term as
Secretary of State for Digital Affairs
Upon joining the
She was involved in the French Tech movement, which unites French digital startups worldwide.
She resigned from the position in February 2017 to focus on the
Post-politics
In February 2018, Lemaire took a job with the consulting firm Roland Berger.[13]
References
- ^ "Législatives 2012 : Londres et l'Europe du Nord élisent Axelle Lemaire (PS)". HuffPost. 18 June 2012. Retrieved 28 July 2012.
- ISSN 1950-6244. Retrieved 12 May 2017.
- ^ "The Franco-British Connections". Fb-connections.org. 16 June 2012. Retrieved 28 July 2012.
- ^ "Tate Modern made to reprint Hirst catalogue". London Evening Standard. 18 June 2012. Retrieved 28 July 2012.
- ^ "Axelle Lemaire: Canadian wins bid for French parliament seat – in London". Canada.com. 20 June 2012. Archived from the original on 2 July 2012. Retrieved 28 July 2012.
- ^ "Accueil | PS – Parti socialiste". Parti socialiste (in French). Retrieved 28 July 2012.
- ^ "Hollande a voulu recruter une ministre sur Canal+". Le Point. 22 June 2012.
- ^ over a year left to listen (1 January 1970). "Woman's Hour, Women in Greece, Gender Pay Audits, Portrait Painting , Axelle Lemaire". BBC.
- ^ "She got the va-va-vote...Axelle Lemaire is Hollande's woman in London". London Evening Standard. 21 September 2012.
- ^ Nationale, Assemblée. "Mme Axelle Lemaire - Mandat clos - Français établis hors de France (3e circonscription) - Assemblée nationale". assemblee-nationale.fr. Retrieved 9 October 2016.
- ^ "Axelle Lemaire (Secrétaire d'Etat chargée du numérique) : "Le principe de Neutralité du Net devrait être inscrit dans la loi"". Retrieved 9 October 2016.
- ^ "France's diaspora: Expats voted in droves for Emmanuel Macron's party". The Economist. 6 June 2017. Retrieved 11 February 2018.
- ^ Antoine Boudet (12 February 2018). "Axelle Lemaire rejoint le bureau parisien de Roland Berger". Les Échos. France. Retrieved 22 July 2018.