Aurélien Rousseau
Minister of Health and Prevention
In office
20 July 2023 – 20 December 2023
PresidentEmmanuel Macron
Prime MinisterÉlisabeth Borne
Preceded byFrançois Braun
Succeeded byAgnès Firmin-Le Bodo
Chief of Staff of Prime Minister of France
In office
17 May 2022 – 17 July 2023
Prime MinisterÉlisabeth Borne
Preceded byNicolas Revel
Succeeded byJean-Denis Combrexelle
Director of the Regional Agency for Health of Île-de-France
In office
2018–2021
Preceded byChristophe Devys
Succeeded byAmélie Verdier
Personal details
Born (1976-06-25) 25 June 1976
Alès, France
Political partySocialist Party
SpouseMarguerite Cazeneuve
Children1
Alma materÉNA

Aurélien Rousseau (born 25 June 1976) is a French civil servant and politician who has briefly served as Minister of Health and Prevention in the government of Prime Minister Élisabeth Borne in 2023.[1]

From May 2022 to July 2023, Rousseau served as Borne's chief of staff;[2] he resigned from that position effective on 17 July 2023.

On 20 December 2023, he resigned as Health Minister in response to the passage of a controversial immigration bill backed by his government.

Early life and education

Rousseau grew up in Saint-Hilaire-de-Brethmas.[3]

Career

In 1999, Rousseau began his career as history and geography teacher at a highschool in Seine-Saint-Denis.[4]

From 2015 to 2017, Rousseau served as deputy director of the cabinet and advisor on social affairs to successive Prime Ministers Manuel Valls and Bernard Cazeneuve.[5]

From 2017 to 2018, Rousseau served as director of Monnaie de Paris.[6][7]

Rousseau won plaudits for running the public health authority in the Paris region during the COVID-19 pandemic in France.[8]

Minister of Health, July–December 2023

In October 2023, Rousseau participated in the first joint cabinet retreat of the German and French governments in Hamburg, chaired by Chancellor Olaf Scholz and President Emmanuel Macron.[9][10]

Personal life

Rousseau is in a relationship with Marguerite Cazeneuve. In 2020, the couple's son was born.[11]

References

  1. ↑ Michel Rose (20 July 2023), Macron reshuffles ministers after French riots "stunned" country Reuters.
  2. ↑ "Aurélien Rousseau, un ex-communiste nommé directeur du cabinet d'Elisabeth Borne". Le Monde.fr (in French). 2022-05-17. Retrieved 2022-09-15.
  3. ↑ Chloé Hecketsweiler and Solenn de Royer (17 April 2021), Covid-19 : les « tristes printemps » d’Aurélien Rousseau Le Monde.
  4. ↑ Chloé Hecketsweiler and Solenn de Royer (17 April 2021), Covid-19 : les « tristes printemps » d’Aurélien Rousseau Le Monde.
  5. ↑ Carole Bellemare (16 May 2017), Aurélien Rousseau, un social et un modernisateur à la Monnaie de Paris Le Figaro.
  6. ↑ Carole Bellemare (16 May 2017), Aurélien Rousseau, un social et un modernisateur à la Monnaie de Paris Le Figaro.
  7. ↑ Étienne Goetz and Isabelle Couet (31 January 2018), Le nouveau PDG de la Monnaie de Paris veut insuffler une « culture de la rentabilité » Les Echos.
  8. ↑ Michel Rose (20 July 2023), Macron reshuffles ministers after French riots "stunned" country Reuters.
  9. ↑ Sarah Marsh and Andreas Rinke (9 October 2023), Germany, France hold unprecedented cabinet retreat to oil creaky EU motor Reuters.
  10. ↑ Erste deutsch-französische Kabinettsklausur: Zukunftsfragen und Weltpolitik diskutiert Cabinet of Germany, press release of 10 October 2023.
  11. ↑ Chloé Hecketsweiler and Solenn de Royer (17 April 2021), Covid-19 : les « tristes printemps » d’Aurélien Rousseau Le Monde.
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