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Aurélien Rousseau | |
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Minister of Health and Prevention | |
In office 20 July 2023 – 20 December 2023 | |
President | Emmanuel Macron |
Prime Minister | Élisabeth Borne |
Preceded by | François Braun |
Succeeded by | Agnès Firmin-Le Bodo |
Chief of Staff of Prime Minister of France | |
In office 17 May 2022 – 17 July 2023 | |
Prime Minister | Élisabeth Borne |
Preceded by | Nicolas Revel |
Succeeded by | Jean-Denis Combrexelle |
Director of the Regional Agency for Health of Île-de-France | |
In office 2018–2021 | |
Preceded by | Christophe Devys |
Succeeded by | Amélie Verdier |
Personal details | |
Born | Alès, France | 25 June 1976
Political party | Socialist Party |
Spouse | Marguerite Cazeneuve |
Children | 1 |
Alma mater | ÉNA |
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.
Rousseau grew up in Saint-Hilaire-de-Brethmas. [3]
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]
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]
Rousseau is in a relationship with Marguerite Cazeneuve. In 2020, the couple's son was born. [11]