Aurélien Rousseau (; born 25 June 1976) is a French civil servant and politician who served as Minister of Health and Prevention in the government of Prime Minister Élisabeth Borne from July to December 2023.Michel Rose (20 July 2023), Macron reshuffles ministers after French riots "stunned" country Reuters. A member of Place Publique (PP), he has represented the 7th constituency of Yvelines in the National Assembly since July 2024.
From May 2022 to July 2023, Rousseau served as Borne's chief of staff; 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, Gard.Chloé Hecketsweiler and Solenn de Royer (17 April 2021), Covid-19 : les « tristes printemps » d’Aurélien Rousseau Le Monde.
Career In 1999, Rousseau began his career as history and geography teacher at a lycée in Seine-Saint-Denis.Chloé Hecketsweiler and Solenn de Royer (17 April 2021), Covid-19 : les « tristes printemps » d’Aurélien Rousseau Le Monde.
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.Carole Bellemare (16 May 2017), Aurélien Rousseau, un social et un modernisateur à la Monnaie de Paris Le Figaro.
From 2017 to 2018, Rousseau served as director of Monnaie de Paris.Carole Bellemare (16 May 2017), Aurélien Rousseau, un social et un modernisateur à la Monnaie de Paris Le Figaro.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.
Rousseau won plaudits for running the public health authority in the Paris region during the COVID-19 pandemic in France.Michel Rose (20 July 2023), Macron reshuffles ministers after French riots "stunned" country Reuters.
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.Sarah Marsh and Andreas Rinke (9 October 2023), Germany, France hold unprecedented cabinet retreat to oil creaky EU motor Reuters.Erste deutsch-französische Kabinettsklausur: Zukunftsfragen und Weltpolitik diskutiert Cabinet of Germany, press release of 10 October 2023.
2024 legislative election In the 2024 French legislative election, he stood under the label of Place Publique as a candidate of the New Popular Front in Yvelines's 7th constituency, winning the seat from Renaissance's Nadia Hai. In an interview with L'Express, he said he was stunned even more by Macron's denunciations of the New Popular Front's program than by the threat of the far-right, arguing that the president's statements were sowing the seeds for the success of the National Rally by giving it "ideological legitimacy" due to his relativisation of the united left and far-right. Rousseau also reaffirmed that he would support all "republican candidates" opposed to the RN in the second round.
Personal life Rousseau is married to Marguerite Cazeneuve. In 2020, the couple's son was born.Chloé Hecketsweiler and Solenn de Royer (17 April 2021), Covid-19 : les « tristes printemps » d’Aurélien Rousseau Le Monde.
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