Fleur Pellerin
 Fleur Pellerin     ( businesswoman) | ||||||||||
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| Born | 29 August 1973 Seoul, South Korea | |||||||||
| Nationality | French | |||||||||
| Alma mater | • ESSEC • Sciences Po • Paris • ENA • Strasbourg | |||||||||
| Member of | Freemasonry/Grand Orient de France, French-American Foundation/Young Leaders/2012, Institut Montaigne | |||||||||
| Party | Socialist Party (France) | |||||||||
French politician
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Fleur Pellerin is a French businesswoman, former civil servant and Socialist Party politician who was a French government minister from 2012 to 2016.
Early life
Pellerin was born in 1973 in Seoul, South Korea, where she was abandoned on the streets aged only three or four days old before being rescued by an orphanage; six months later she was adopted by a French family.[1][2] Raised by middle-class parents, her father is a small-business owner, and she grew up in Paris suburbs.[3]
Education
Pellerin graduated from ESSEC business school while she was just 21. She then graduated from Sciences Po (MPA) before attending the École nationale d'administration (ENA). She joined the French Court of Auditors where she rose to become a high-ranking civil servant.
Career
From 2010 to 2012, Pellerin was president of the 21st Century Club, a French group that promotes diversity in employment.[4]
Pellerin took charge of society and digital economy issues for Socialist Party candidate François Hollande in his successful 2012 French presidential election campaign.[5]
After Hollande's election, Pellerin was appointed as with responsibility for Small and Medium-sized Enterprises, Innovation and the Digital Economy. In July 2012, she publicly announced her opposition to the sale of massive surveillance technologies causing quite a stir in French political circles since France is one of the biggest sellers of such technology.[6][7]
On 11 February 2014, Pellerin was among the guests invited to the state dinner hosted by U.S. President Barack Obama in honor of Hollande at the White House.[8]
In August 2014, Pellerin was appointed Minister of Culture as part of the government of Prime Minister Manuel Valls.[9] Shortly after Pellerin was appointed Minister of Culture, the French magazine L'Express reported that she vacationed at the Corsican villa owned by film producer Pascal Breton, raising corruption questions.[10]
As part of a major government reshuffle in early 2016, Pellerin was replaced by Audrey Azoulay, who at the time served as Hollande's cultural advisor.[11]
In August 2016 she became the head of Korelya Capital, an investment fund aimed at emerging technologies[12][13] which benefited from a 100-million euros funding by the South Korean Naver Corporation.[14]
Board positions
She also holds several other bord positions, including the following:
- Eurockéennes, Member of the Board of Directors (since 2018)[15]
- Canneseries, President (since 2017)[16]
- Louvre Endowment Fund, Member of the Board of Directors[17]
- Institut Montaigne, Member of the Board of Directors[18]
- Stanhope Capital Group, Member of the Board of Directors (since 2021)[19]
- Reworld Media, Independent Member of the Board of Directors (since 2019)[20]
- KLM, Member of the Board of Directors (since 2018)[21]
- Schneider Electric, Member of the Board of Directors (since 2018)[22]
- Talan, Member of the Board of Directors (since 2018)[23]
- KissKissBankBank, Member of the Board of Directors (since 2016)[24]
- Devialet, Member of the Board of Directors (since 2016)[25]
Events Participated in
| Event | Start | End | Location(s) | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bilderberg/2014 | 29 May 2014 | 1 June 2014 | Denmark Copenhagen Marriott Hotel | The 62nd Bilderberg, with 136 guests, held in Copenhagen |
| WEF/Annual Meeting/2013 | 23 January 2013 | 27 January 2013 | Switzerland WEF | 2500 mostly unelected leaders met to discuss "leading through adversity" |
| WEF/Annual Meeting/2014 | 22 January 2014 | 25 January 2014 | Switzerland WEF | 2603 guests in Davos considered "Reshaping The World" |
References
- ↑ {http://english.donga.com/srv/service.php3?biid=2012051904338%7Cdate=19 May 2012
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20171020235758/http://english.chosun.com/site/data/html_dir/2012/05/18/2012051800728.html
- ↑ Eric Pfanner and David Jolly (January 16, 2013), Pushing France Onto the Digital Stage International Herald Tribune.
- ↑ Eric Pfanner and David Jolly (January 16, 2013), Pushing France Onto the Digital Stage International Herald Tribune.
- ↑ Agence-France Presse/Jiji Press, "Pellerin stirs Korean hearts", Japan Times, 20 May 2012, p. 3
- ↑ https://archive.today/20130125024514/http://www.groundreport.com/World/Fleur-Pellerin-I-am-opposed-to-France-selling-mass/2947249
- ↑ [http://www.lefigaro.fr/secteur/high-tech/2013/11/28/32001-20131128ARTFIG00018-la-france-consacre-215-millions-d-euros-a-soutenir-ses-start-up.php
- ↑ Expected Attendees at Tonight's State Dinner Office of the First Lady of the United States, press release of 11 February 2014.
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20180829175321/http://www.enssib.fr/en/breves/2014/08/27/fleur-pellerin-la-culture-najat-vallaud-belkacem-leducation-nationale
- ↑ Doreen Carvajal (September 12, 2014), Europeans Bracing for Netflix New York Times.
- ↑ Jean-Christophe Castelain (February 12, 2016), Audrey Azoulay replaces Fleur Pellerin as France's culture minister The Art Newspaper.
- ↑ L'ex-ministre Fleur Pellerin démissionne de la fonction publique et part dans le privé, Marianne, 21 August 2016
- ↑ Fleur Pellerin lève 100 millions d'euros pour son fonds d'investissement, Europe 1, 29 september 2016
- ↑ Fleur Pellerin lève 100 millions d'euros pour faire grandir les start-up françaises, Le Figaro, 29 September 2016
- ↑ Eurockéennes : plus haut, plus fort, 135.000 festivaliers nouveau record de fréquentation France 3 Bourgogne, 8 July 2018.
- ↑ Fleur Pellerin, présidente du futur Festival des Séries de Cannes Le Point, 8 March 2017.
- ↑ Board of Directors Louvre Endowment Fund.
- ↑ Board of Directors Institut Montaigne.
- ↑ Fleur Pellerin Stanhope Capital Group.
- ↑ Reworld Media strengthens its Board with the appointment of two new members Archived 28 December 2019 at the Wayback Machine. Reworld Media, press release of October 16, 2019.
- ↑ KLM Shareholders (re)appoint members to the Supervisory Board and the Board of Managing Directors KLM, press release of 26 April 2018.
- ↑ Board of Directors Schneider Electric.
- ↑ Fleur Pellerin joins Talan Talan.
- ↑ Guillaume Bregeras (8 December 2016), Fleur Pellerin rejoint le conseil d'administration de KissKissBankBank Les Echos.
- ↑ Grégoire Pinson and Capucine Cousin (28 November 2016), Fleur Pellerin entre au conseil d'administration de Devialet Challenges.
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