He had been tipped for a long time to enter the government.
Jean-Noël Barrot has just been officially appointed Minister Delegate for Digital.
Close to the centrist François Bayrou, the 39-year-old economist, secretary general of the Democratic Movement (MoDem), has been a deputy for Yvelines since 2017.
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This convinced liberal comes from a line of politicians belonging to Christian democracy: his father, Jacques Barrot, who died in 2014, was a member of the Constitutional Council and several times a minister;
his grandfather, Noël Barrot, was a former resistance fighter and deputy.
In connection with companies
During the first five-year term of Emmanuel Macron, the centrist has already participated in several missions with the governments of Édouard Philippe then Jean Castex.
Within the framework of the bill on the growth and transformation of companies (Pact) within the first, then with a view to reviving the economy under the second.
More recently, the former vice-president of the Finance Committee of the National Assembly was in charge of relations with companies in Emmanuel Macron's campaign.
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A graduate of HEC and Sciences Po Paris, Jean-Noël Barrot has taught in major schools for several years.
He was appointed assistant professor of finance at the Sloan School of Management of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 2013, then associate professor at HEC in 2018. He is also a laureate of the "
Young Leaders
" program of the French-American Foundation in 2020.
