Éric Besson

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Éric Besson (born 2 April 1958 in Marrakech) is a French politician, presently with the title of “State Secretary for Prospectives and Evaluation of Public Policies ^[1] and Internet" in the government of François Fillon.

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Born in Morocco, Besson's mother is from Lebanon and his father was a flight instructor in the French Air Force, killed in flight within three months after Éric's birth. At 17, he came back to France and studied in the École supérieure de commerce of Montpellier, then in the Institut d'études politiques de Paris.

Besson joined the French car company, Renault, then worked for Challenges, a business monthly, before joining the Vivendi foundation.

He was a member of the Socialist Party from 1993 to 2007; he is mayor of Donzère since 1995 and was député of Drôme from 1997 to 2007 (he was no longer candidate).

He began the 2007 French presidential election as a member of Ségolène Royal's campaign team, but defected, proclaiming that he felt the Socialist campaign's economics to be deeply flawed.

Besson is married to Sylvie Brunel, a geographist, and writer, former president of Action Against Hunger and they have three children.

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[edit] External links

• (French) Éric Besson's web site
• (French) Biography

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NAME	Besson, Éric
ALTERNATIVE NAMES
SHORT DESCRIPTION	French politician
DATE OF BIRTH	2 April 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH	Marrakech, Morocco
DATE OF DEATH
PLACE OF DEATH