H.E. Mr. Minister of Industrial Renewal,

Ministerial positions _ Minister for Economic Regeneration (since May 2012)

Elective positions _ MP for Saône-et-Loire (1997, re-elected in 2002 and 2007) _ Chair of the Saône-et-Loire Département Council (2008 - 2012) _ Member of the Saône-et-Loire Département Council since 2008 (elected in the Montret subconstituency)

Political responsibilities _ Rapporteur for the parliamentary investigative committee on the activity and operation of commercial courts, chaired by François Colcombet in 1997 _ Rapporteur for the parliamentary fact-finding mission on roadblocks to the fight against money laundering in Europe, chaired by in 1997 _ Co-founder of the nonprofit organisation "Convention pour la sixième République – C6R" (2001) _ Leader of the Federation in Saône-et-Loire (2002) _ Vice-chair of the Constitutional Acts, Legislation and General Administration Committee (2002 - 2007) _ Spokesperson for Ségolène Royal, Socialist Party candidate in the 2007 presidential election _ Senior Vice-Chair of the "Socialist, Radical and Citizen" parliamentary group in the National Assembly (2007) _ National Secretary of the Socialist Party, with responsibility for renewal (2008 - 2012) residential election (2010 - 2011) _ Special Representative of presidential candidate François Hollande (2011 - 2012)

Career _ Lawyer at the Court of Appeal (since 1990) _ Representative of the Conférence des avocats du barreau de Paris (a French lawyers' association and competition) (1992)

Education _ Graduate of the Institute for Political Studies, Paris _ Law degree from Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne _ Legal studies at Université de Dijon

Published works _ Les tribunaux de commerce : une justice en faillite ? With François Colcombet (Michel Lafon, 1998) _ Proposition de résolution tendant au renvoi de Monsieur occupant les fonctions de Président de la République devant la Commission d'instruction de la Haute Cour de Justice (Denoël, 2001) _ Information Report, Volume II, La lutte contre le blanchiment des capitaux en France : un combat à poursuivre (2002) _ La machine à trahir : Rapports sur le délabrement de nos institutions (Denoël, 2002) _ Foreword to Vive la République européenne !, Stefan Collignon (La Martinière, 2004) _ La Constitution de la 6e République - Réconcilier les Français avec la démocratie, with Bastien François (Odile Jacob, 2005) _ Primaire: comment sauver la gauche, with (Seuil, 2009) _ Des idées et des rêves (Flammarion, 2010) _ Votez pour la démondialisation ! - La République plus forte que la mondialisation, foreword by Emmanuel Todd (Flammarion, 2011) _ Antimanuel de politique (Bréal, 2012)