Jean-François Copé
Jean-François Copé (politician) | |
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Born | 5 May 1964 Boulogne-Billancourt, Hauts-de-Seine, France |
Nationality | French |
Ethnicity | Jewish |
Alma mater | Sciences Po, École nationale d'administration |
Children | 4 |
Spouse | • Valérie Ducuing • Nadia Hamama |
Member of | Le Siècle, Trilateral Commission |
Party | RPR, UMP, Les Républicains, (2015-present) |
Jean-François Copé is a French politician. He attended the 2003 Bilderberg meeting.
Career
In May 2002, Copé became Secretary of State in the first and second cabinets of Jean-Pierre Raffarin. He was in charge of relations with parliament in the Prime Minister's department. In the Raffarin III cabinet, he first became an associate minister in the Ministry of the Interior in March 2004 and then, in the course of a cabinet reshuffle in November 2004, an Associate Minister for the Budget (ministre delegué au budget) in the Ministry of Finance; he retained this position in the government of Dominique de Villepin. He was also the government spokesman from 2002 to 2007. In December 2005, he was re-elected mayor of Meaux, a post he then held in addition to his duties in national politics (re-elected in 2008 and 2014).
In December 2006, Copé launched the neo-Gaullist-liberal economic think tank Génération France.fr.
After the 2007 presidential election, he resigned from the government.
Events Participated in
Event | Start | End | Location(s) | Description |
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Bilderberg/2003 | 15 May 2003 | 18 May 2003 | France Versailles | The 51st Bilderberg, in Versailles, France |
WEF/Annual Meeting/2007 | 24 January 2007 | 28 January 2007 | Switzerland | Only the 449 public figures listed of ~2200 participants |
WEF/Annual Meeting/2008 | 23 January 2008 | 27 January 2008 | World Economic Forum Switzerland | At the 2008 summit, Klaus Schwab called for a coordinated approach, where different 'stakeholders' collaborate across geographical, industrial, political and cultural boundaries." |