Audrey Azoulay
Audrey Azoulay | |
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| 10th Director-General of the UNESCO | |
| In office 15 November 2017 – 6 November 2025 | |
| Preceded by | Irina Bokova |
| Succeeded by | Khaled El-Enany |
| Minister of Culture | |
| In office 11 February 2016 – 10 May 2017 | |
| Prime Minister | Manuel Valls Bernard Cazeneuve |
| Preceded by | Fleur Pellerin |
| Succeeded by | Françoise Nyssen |
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| Born | 4 August 1972 La Celle-Saint-Cloud, France |
| Political party | Socialist Party |
| Spouse(s) | François-Xavier Labarraque |
| Children | 2 |
| Alma mater | Paris Dauphine University Lancaster University Sciences Po École nationale d'administration |
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Audrey Azoulay (French pronunciation: [o.dʁɛ a.zu.lɛ]; born 4 August 1972) is a French politician. She was France's Minister of Culture from 2016 to 2017.[1][2]
She was nominated on 13 October 2017 and, on 10 November 2017, appointed as the Director-General of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), becoming the second female leader of the organization.
Early life
Azoulay was born in La Celle-Saint-Cloud to a Moroccan Jewish family from Essaouira.[3] Her father, André Azoulay, is the current senior adviser to King Mohammed VI of Morocco, having previously been the adviser to his predecessor King Hassan II from 1991 to 1999.[4][5] Her mother, Katia Azoulay, is a Moroccan writer. Her aunt, Éliane, is a journalist for the French magazine Télérama. She indicates having "grown up in a very left-wing environment", in the Beaugrenelle neighborhood, with her two older sisters, Judith, who worked in the Association française d'action artistique (AFAA), and Sabrina, who is a producer.
References
- ↑ "Audrey Azoulay". gouvernement.fr. Archived from the original on 7 May 2017. Retrieved 21 April 2017.
- ↑ "UN Says Attacks on Heritage Sites Could Be War Crimes". voanews. 24 March 2017.
- ↑ "Audrey Azoulay : "A l'ENA, j'ai découvert l'antisémitisme vieille France"". Le Journal du Dimanche (in French). 14 February 2016.
- ↑ Ackermann, Paul (11 February 2016). "Audrey Azoulay, ministre de la Culture et "amie des artistes"" (in French). Huffington Post.
- ↑ "Leïla Slimani reçoit les insignes d'Officier de l'ordre des Arts et des Lettres à Paris" (in French). Huffington Post. 23 March 2017. Archived from the original on 24 March 2017.