Audrey Azulay , in the French transcription Audrey Azoulay or Audre Azoulay ( French Audrey Azoulay ; born August 4, 1972 , Paris ) - French politician and statesman of Moroccan origin, Director-General of UNESCO since November 15, 2017.
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| Predecessor | Irina Bokova | ||||||
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| Head of the government | Manuel Waltz , Bernard Kaznev | ||||||
| The president | Francois Hollande | ||||||
| Predecessor | Fleur Pelren | ||||||
| Successor | Francoise Nissen | ||||||
| Birth | August 4, 1972 (aged 47) Paris , France | ||||||
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| Education | University of Paris-Dauphin | ||||||
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Minister of Culture and Communications of France (2016-2017).
Content
- 1 Biography
- 1.1 The early years
- 1.2 Political career
- 1.3 Director-General of UNESCO
- 2 notes
- 3 References
Biography
Early years
Born on August 4, 1972 in Paris, in a family of Moroccan Jews . The daughter of , adviser to the kings of Morocco, Hassan II and Mohammed VI (as a child, Audrey spent school holidays in the royal palace of Morocco). She received a Master of Science from the University of Paris-Dauphin and a Master of Business Administration from Lancaster University . She graduated from the Institute for Political Studies in Paris and the National School of Administration [3] .
Political career
After graduating from the National School of Administration in 2000, she worked in the Accounts Chamber of the Ile-de-France region and was a member of the Committee for Control over the Cost and Efficiency of Public Services. In 2006 she moved to the , where over time she became the head of the audiovisual media division. In 2014, she became an adviser to President Francois Hollande and dealt, in particular, with problems of deregulating the market for audiovisual services and cinema [4] . Among the main tasks of Azulay was also the problem of protecting French cinema in the European market in connection with the advent of Netflix services and other video on demand (VoD) systems [5] .
February 12, 2016 became Minister of Culture of France in the second government of Manuel Waltz [6] .
December 6, 2016 became part of the government of Kaznev , receiving a portfolio of the Minister of Culture and Communications [7] .
On May 17, 2017, the government of Edouard Philippe was formed, in which Francoise Nissen got the position of Azoulay, and she herself did not receive any appointment [8] .
Director-General of UNESCO
May 25, 2017 arrived at the G7 summit in Taormina in Sicily as part of the election campaign for the post of Director General of UNESCO , which she joined in March 2017, intending to replace the Bulgarian Irina Bokova , whose mandate expires in 2017 [ 9] . On October 13, 2017, she was elected Director-General of UNESCO following a vote by the Organization’s Executive Board, receiving 30 votes to 28, cast for Qatar’s representative .
On November 10, 2017, the UNESCO General Conference approved the appointment; Azulay’s assumption of office was scheduled for November 15 [10] .
Notes
- ↑ http://www.slate.fr/story/113989/audrey-azoulay-ministre-culture
- ↑ http://www.archimag.com/archives-patrimoine/2016/02/11/audreay-azoulay-nomm%C3%A9e-ministre-culture
- ↑ Audrey Azoulay. Ministre de la culture (Fr.) . Le Figaro. Date of treatment March 1, 2017.
- ↑ Anaelle Grondin. Qui est Audrey Azoulay, la nouvelle ministre de la Culture et de la Communication? (Fr.) . Les Echos (11 fevrier 2016). Date of treatment March 1, 2017.
- ↑ Bertrand Guyard. Audrey Azoulay, "Talleyrand en jupons" de l'Élysée (Fr.) . Le Figaro (12 juin 2014). Date of treatment March 2, 2017.
- ↑ Audrey Azoulay, ministre de la culture au service de François Hollande (French) . Le Temps (12 fevrier 2016). Date of treatment March 1, 2017.
- ↑ La composition du gouvernement de Bernard Cazeneuve (French) . LCP (6 décembre 2016). Date of treatment February 16, 2017.
- ↑ Gouvernement Édouard Philippe: qui sont les ministres de Macron (French) . Le Figaro (17 mai 2017). Date of treatment May 17, 2017.
- ↑ Jean Talabot. Au G7, Audrey Azoulay défend sa candidature à l'Unesco (French) . Le Figaro (26 mai 2017). Date of treatment August 30, 2017.
- ↑ Audrey Azoulay appointed as Director-General of UNESCO . UNESCO (November 10, 2017). Date of treatment November 10, 2017.
Links
- Audrey Azoulay's website as Candidate for Director-General for UNESCO
- Biography of Audrey Azoul . RIA Novosti (October 16, 2017). Date of appeal April 17, 2018.
- Alexey Naryshkin, Mikhail Gusman . Audrey Azoulay, new Director-General of UNESCO . 48 minutes Echo of Moscow (October 18, 2017). Date of appeal April 17, 2018.