Jean-Yves Le Drian

Date of Birth: 30.06.1947

Jean-Yves Le Drian - French politician. Minister of Defense of France in the cabinets of Jean-Marc Ayrault, Manuel Valls, Bernard Cazeneuve (2012-2017). Minister for Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation of France (2017-2022).

Place of Birth. Education. Jean-Yves Le Drian was born on June 30, 1947, into a working-class family in Lorient, Brittany. In 1973, he graduated from university. Agrégé in contemporary history.

Political Career. From 1977 to 2004, he was a city councilor of Lorient (Department of Morbihan).

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From 1978 to 1991 and from 1997 to 2007, he was a deputy of the National Assembly of France from Morbihan.

From 1981 to 1998, he was the mayor of Lorient (Department of Morbihan).

From 1983 to 2004, he was the president of the intercommunal association for communities (Syndicat intercommunal à vocation multiple) of Lorient (6 communities), then of the Lorient district (10 communities) and finally of the Lorient agglomeration (19 communities).

From 1991 to 1992, he was Secretary of State for Maritime Affairs at the Minister for Housing, Transport, and Space in France.

Since 1993, he has been the honorary General Director for Education in France.

From 1998 to 2004, he was a regional councilor of Brittany.

From 2004 to 2012, he served as the president of the Regional Council of Brittany.

From 2005, he was appointed vice-president of the French delegation in the Committee of the Regions and became a member of the council of this committee.

From 2009 to 2010, he led the campaign of the Socialist Party in the regional parliamentary elections. The party lost to the Union for a Popular Movement.

In 2010, he was elected president of the Conference of Peripheral Maritime Regions of Europe (CPMR).

From May 16, 2012, to May 17, 2017, he served as the Minister of Defense of France under President François Hollande.

In the first round of the presidential elections in 2017, he supported the candidacy of Emmanuel Macron.

From May 17, 2017, to July 2020, he was Minister for Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation of France in the cabinet of Édouard Philippe.

Member of the French Socialist Party, announced his resignation on March 8, 2018.

From July 6, 2020, to May 2022, he was Minister for Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation of France in the government of Jean Castex.

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