Patrick Louis

Patrick Louis (born 22 October 1955, Vitry) is a French politician and Member of the European Parliament for the south-east of France. He is a member of the Movement for France, which is part of the Independence and Democracy group, and sits on the European Parliament's Committee on Transport and Tourism.

He is also a substitute for the Committee on International Trade and a member of the delegations for relations with the Gulf States, including Yemen, for relations with the Mashreq countries, and to the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly.

Career

* University teaching qualification in economics and management (1984)
* Visiting lecturer at the Franco-Czech Management Institute in Prague (1993)
* Visiting lecturer at Bucharest (1995)
* Visiting lecturer at the University of Georgia (United States) (1997)
* Visiting lecturer at the University of Minnesota (1991, 1994, 2000)
* Visiting lecturer at the Beirut College of Commerce (2004)
* Examiner at the Institute for Advanced Studies in National Defence
* Lecturer at Jean Moulin University, Lyon
* Administrator, Interregional and Technical Union of Students' Mutual Associations
* MPF regional officer (1994-2002)
* RPF departmental secretary for Rhône (2000)
* MPF regional coordinator for the Rhône-Alpes region
* Member of Rhône-Alpes Regional Council (1998-2004)
* Chairman of the Transport Committee of the Rhône-Alpes Regional Council (1998-1999)
* Member of the TRANSALP public interest group
* Cofounder of the movement 'Combat pour les valeurs' (Combat for Values)
* Le Budgétaire, First, 1989 (collective work)
* "Encyclopédie de l'économie et de la gestion", Hachette, 1991 (collective work)
* Knight of the "Ordre des Palmes académiques"

External links

* [http://www.mpf-villiers.com/ Official website] (in French)
* [http://wwwdb.europarl.eu.int/ep6/owa/whos_mep.data?ilg=EN&iucd=28217 European Parliament biography]
* [http://wwwdb.europarl.eu.int/ep6-dif/28217_19-07-2004.PDF Declaration of financial interests] (in French; PDF file)