Olivia Grégoire | |
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Member of the National Assembly for Paris | |
Assumed office 21 June 2017 |
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Preceded by | Philippe Goujon |
Personal details | |
Born |
Paris, France |
30 September 1978
Nationality | French |
Political party | La République En Marche |
Alma mater |
Paris-Nanterre University Sciences Po ESSEC Business School |
Olivia Grégoire (born 30 September 1978) is a French politician representing La République En Marche! She was elected to the French National Assembly on 18 June 2017, representing the twelfth constituency of the department of Paris.
Grégoire gained a bachelor's degree in history from Paris-Nanterre University. She then graduated from Sciences Po in 2001, the same year as Emmanuel Macron, and completed a master's degree in marketing at ESSEC Business School in 2002.
From 2002-5 she worked for the press office of Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin, and from 2005-7 as an adviser and strategist for Health Minister Xavier Bertrand. Between 2007 and 2014 she worked in communications and marketing for the multinational companies DDB Worldwide, Havas and Saint-Gobain, and for the government communications agency Etalab. She founded Olicare, a communications and strategy consultancy, in 2014.
She joined Emmanuel Macron’s En Marche! movement in March 2016, a month before it was publicly launched, and was involved in designing the movement’s policies on health-care.
In the 2017 legislative elections she was elected with 56.36% of the vote, defeating Philippe Goujon of Les Republicains.
Grégoire is currently a spokesperson for the parliamentary group of La Republique en Marche! and is a member of the Finance Commission (Commission des Finances), a parliamentary committee that scrutinizes public spending.