Élisabeth Guigou

Infobox AM


assembly=French National
constituency_AM=Seine-Saint-Denis (9th constituency)
term_start=19 June 2002
term_end=
predecessor=Véronique Neiertz
successor=
office2=French Minister for Social Affairs
term_start2=18 October 2000
term_end2=5 May 2002
predecessor2=Martine Aubry
successor2=François Fillon
office3=French Minister for Justice
term_start3=4 June 1997
term_end3=1 October 2000
predecessor3=Jacques Toubon
successor3=Marylise Lebranchu
order4=French Deputy Minister for European Affairs
term_start4=3 October 1990
term_end4=29 March 1993
predecessor4=Édith Cresson
successor4=Alain Lamassoure
parliament5=European
constituency_MP5=France
term_start5=19 July 1994
term_end5=5 July 1997
birth_date=bda|1946|8|6
birth_place=Marrakesh, Morocco
party=Socialist
alma_mater=ENA
spouse=Jean-Louis Guigou

Élisabeth Guigou (born Élisabeth Vallier, 6 August 1946, Marrakesh, Morocco) is a French Socialist politician.

Biography

After attending ENA, France's elite graduate school of public affairs, she worked on Jacques Delors' staff in 1982 before being hired by Hubert Védrine in François Mitterrand's . She was appointed Secretary-General of the Interminsterial Committee on European Economical Matters in 1986 during the period of cohabitation.

She first got a taste of front-line politics when she was appointed Minister of Eureopean Affairs (1990-1993), during the campaign on the Maastricht Treaty, before she was elected to the European Parliament in 1994. During 1994-1995 she was member of the Tindemans group.

In 1997, she was elected to the National Assembly in the Vaucluse "département" and entered incoming Prime Minister Lionel Jospin's cabinet, as Minister of Justice (1997-2000) and then as Minister of Employment (2000-2002).

She failed to be elected Mayor of Avignon and, facing possible defeat in her district, got nominated as a candidate for the National Assembly in 2002 in the heavily left-wing "département" of Seine-Saint-Denis. She was re-elected in 2007.

She is a founding chairwoman and co-president with Jean-Noël Jeanneney of "Europartenaires", a group linking business interests with the European Union. She has also created a lobby group called "Femmes d'Europe" (Women of Europe) and sits on the board of directors of Jacques Delors's foundation "Notre Europe" (Our Europe). She campaigned for the Yes in the referendum on the 2005 Treaty establishing a Constitution for Europe.

She is the spouse of Jean-Louis Guigou, a professor of economics, former technical adviser to Michel Rocard and civil servant. They have one child.

tudies

*Bachelor of Literature
*Master of Political Science, Institute of Political Studies of Aix-en-Provence
*Alumna of the "École nationale d'administration"(ENA).