Graduate: 1985, Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris; 1989, Ecole Nationale d'Administration. Formerly: over three years as French government spokesman; helped prepare and promote every recent structural reform in France, including retirement, social security, tax reform; 1993-95, Director of Staff to Roger Romani, Minister for Relations with the Senate; 1995 and 2001, Mayor of Meaux, a city with 50,000 inhabitants in Paris region; 1995, elected to Parliament; 2002, Minister for Relations with Parliament and Spokesman for government; 2004, Minister Delegate for Interior; 2005, Minister of Budget and State Reform; 2007, Majority Leader, French Parliament. President, generationfrance.fr.