Jean-Marie Le Guen

Jean-Marie Le Guen
Born	(1953-01-03) January 3, 1953 Paris, France
Occupation(s)	Physician, politician
Years active	1988–present
Known for	Member of the National Assembly for Paris (1997–2014); Secretary of State for Relations with Parliament (2014–2016)

Jean-Marie Le Guen (born 3 January 1953) is a French physician specializing in public health, as well as a politician affiliated with the Socialist Party (PS). He represented the 13th arrondissement of Paris in the National Assembly from 1997 until 2014. Between 2014 and 2016, he held the position of Secretary of State for Relations with Parliament within Prime Minister Manuel Valls's government.

Local politics

• 29 July 1988 – 16 December 1992: Served as Deputy
• 20 March 1989 – 18 June 1995: Held membership in both the general council and the Paris council
• 23 March 1992 – 25 June 1997: Regional council member for Île-de-France
• 19 June 1995 – 18 March 2001: Participated again in the general council and Paris council

National Assembly, 1997–2014

Le Guen secured his first election to the National Assembly during the 1997 French legislative election. From 2002 to 2012, he contributed as a member of the Committee on Economic Affairs. In the 2007 elections, he was re-elected representing Paris’s 9th district with a vote share of 62.57%, subsequently assuming the role of vice-president of the National Assembly under Bernard Accoyer.

Within the Socialist parliamentary group, he was responsible for health policy initiatives and led a study group focusing on obesity. He co-authored Obesity: The New French Sickness in 2005. Additionally, he chaired a parliamentary task force addressing avian influenza, served as vice-president of the parliamentary office tasked with evaluating health policies, and participated in the High Council for the Future of Health Insurance.

Between 2007 and 2012, Le Guen was a member of France’s delegation to the Inter-Parliamentary Union. Starting in 2008, under Mayor Bertrand Delanoë, he supported public health efforts and managed relations with Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP), where he presided over its administrative council.

During the Socialist Party’s presidential primaries in 2017, Le Guen publicly opposed candidate Benoît Hamon and endorsed Manuel Valls.

Post-political career

Since June 2017, Le Guen has been serving as an advisor to Pierre Donnersberg, chairman of Siaci Saint-Honoré, a leading French insurance brokerage firm. He also holds board memberships at prominent corporations:

• Swissport, Board Member since 2019
• Gategroup, Board Member since 2019
• Huawei France, Board Member since 2020

Le Guen’s background includes experience in financial services through his work with Compagnie Financière Edmond de Rothschild.

Political views

In 2004, Le Guen advocated raising taxes on alcoholic beverages to help control overspending in health budgets. By 2016, he called for renewed discussions on legalizing cannabis in France, arguing that existing prohibition measures were ineffective.

External links

• Official site of Jean-Marie Le Guen
• Robi Morder, "Eléments pour une histoire politique de la mutuelle nationale des étudiants de France", Cahiers du Germe spécial n° 4, 2003/2004 (and on germe.info)
• Article in Le Monde, 22 March 2006