Secretary General of the Fondation Jean-Jaurès from January 2018

Jean-Marc Ayrault holds the (CAPES) diploma for teaching German in Secondary Schools. He developed a passion for politics at a young age and became member of the Socialist Party (PS) at the age of 21.

In 1977 he became Mayor of Saint-Herblain, then of Nantes in 1989, where he was re-elected three times. From 1986 he was a Member of Parliament for the Loire-Atlantique region. Where he played an important role and. in 1997 became leader of the Socialist Parliamentary group within the Assemblée générale. On the 15^th May 2012 he was appointed as Prime Minister by the newly-elected President of the French Republic, François Hollande. He was then re-elected MP in his constituency at the first round the following 10^th June. On the 31^st March 2014 he left his position as Prime Minister and became a Member of Parliament again until March 2016. From February 2016 to February 2018 Jean-Marc Ayrault was Minister for Foreign Affairs and International Development.

Photo: @Fondation Jean Jaurès