Nathalie Kosciusko-Morizet

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Nathalie Kosciusko-Morizet (b. May 14, 1973 in Paris) is a French politician, current Secretary of State of Ecology in the French government.

She was a member (2002-2007) of French National Assembly representing the department of Essonne, to the south of Paris. She is a member of the UMP group. She is also the mayor of Longjumeau (Essonne) since March 2008.

Although close to Jacques Chirac throughout his presidency, she is a strong advocate of green issues, and can be described as a part of the "blue ecologists" group.

She graduated from the École Polytechnique.

[edit] Family

She comes from a politician family with Polish roots (from Józef Tomasz Kościuszko (1743-1789), brother of the famous Tadeusz Kosciuszko) His grand father, Jacques Kosciusko-Morizet (born Kosciusko 1913-1994) was an academic, member of the French Resistance during the war, gaullist politician and former French ambassador in US whose father in law, André Morizet, was a socialist senator and mayor of Boulogne-Billancourt. His father François Kosciusko-Morizet (b. 1940) is the current mayor of Sèvres. She is also the sister of Pierre Kosciusko-Morizet (b. 1977), one of the foundators of Priceminister.com, third e-commerce site in France.