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Valérie Fourneyron
Valérie Fourneyron, January 2013.
Junior Minister for Crafts, Trade, Tourism and Social Economy
Incumbent
Assumed office April 9, 2014 (2014-04-09)
President	François Hollande
Prime Minister	Manuel Vallss
Preceded by	Sylvia Pinel (Crafts, Trade and Tourism) Benoît Hamon (Social Economy)
Minister of Sports, Youth, Popular Education and Community Life
In office May 16, 2012 (2012-05-16) – March 31, 2014 (2014-03-31)
President	François Hollande
Prime Minister	Jean-Marc Ayrault
Preceded by	David Douillet (Sports) Luc Chatel (Youth and Community Life)
Succeeded by	Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
Member of the National Assembly for Rouen’s 1st Constituency
In office June 20, 2007 (2007-06-20) – July 21, 2012 (2012-07-21)
Preceded by	Patrick Herr
Succeeded by	Pierre Léautey
Mayor of Rouen
In office March 9, 2008 (2008-03-09) – June 27, 2012 (2012-06-27)
Preceded by	Pierre Albertini
Succeeded by	Yvon Robert
General Councillor for the administrative district of Rouen-5
In office March 29, 2004 (2004-03-29) – March 16, 2008 (2008-03-16)
Preceded by	Richard Picot
Succeeded by	Christine Rambaud
Regional Councillor of Upper Normandy Regional Council
In office March 16, 1998 (1998-03-16) – July 1, 2007 (2007-07-01)
Succeeded by	Laurence Tison
Personal details
Born	Valérie Absire (1959-10-04) October 4, 1959 Le Petit-Quevilly, Seine-Maritime (France)

Valérie Fourneyron (born in Petit-Quevilly on October 4, 1959) is a French politician. She is a member of the French Socialist Party and she was a former member of the National Assembly and mayor of Rouen. Since 9 April 2014, Valérie Fourneyron is the Junior Minister for Crafts, Trade, Tourism and Social Economy in Manuel Valls's Cabinet.

Early Life

Born in a tanner family from the bourgeoisie of the area of Rouen, the Absire-Sevrey, Valérie Absire grew in a right-wing family from whom she shared opinions when she was a teenager. At 14, she supported Valéry Giscard d'Estaing during the 1974 presidential campaign. This support was then used against her by local political opponents. In the 1980s, her convictions evolved to the left.

According to the French National Medical Council (Conseil National de l'Ordre des Médecins), she is a medical practitioner. From 1984 to 1989, she was a sport doctor in the teaching hospital of Rouen and then she became a youth and sports regional medical inspector (Médecin Inspecteur Régional Jeunesse et Sports - MIRJS).

In 1989, she entered in the Minister of Sports where she was both in charge of the organisation and the monitoring of the national sport medicine and of the coordination of the Team Physicians of French national teams. As part of her duties, Valérie Fourneyron largely participated in the writing of the 1989 Anti-Doping Act. From 1991 to 1995, she was head physician of the regional center of sport medicine in Sotteville-lès-Rouen and Team Physician of the French volleyball team. She was also Team Physician of the Rouen Hockey Élite 76.

Political Career

She became politically active in 1995 when Yvon Robert, the Socialist candidate to Rouen City Council, proposed to her to join his team. From 1995 to 2001, Valérie Fourneyron was first deputy-mayor in charge of sports and then first-deputy mayor in charge of the city policy, health and security. In 1998, she was a member of an interdepartmental group in charge of “sports medicine and doping” (a report was published in November 1999) and she collaborated to the working group in charge of writing the new legislation regarding doping (Act of 23 March 2000).

During the 1998 regional election, she was elected at the Upper Normandy Regional Council on the left-wing coalition led by Alain Le Vern. Following that, she became vice-president in charge of sports. She was re-elected in 2004 and remained vice-president. When she was elected at the National Assembly, she resigned from her seat in the Regional Council on July 1, 2007. She is committed by the French Socialist Party for the 2002 legislative election. She faced the outgoing MP Patrick Herr, representing the right party UMP]], in the first constituency of Seine-Maritime. She narrowly lost in the second round by a mere 520 votes. After the campaign, she claimed that she was hurt by the hardness of the attacks made against her: “I was accused of being a bad mother because I didn't stop my political career when I lost one of my sons in a scooter accident. But my children are the reasons why I decided to pursue.<refValérie Fourneyron, la battante</ref>”

After the 2004 General Council election, she was general councillor for the canton of Rouen-5. She then resigned of her mandate as a municipal representative.

Valérie Fourneyron was chosen for a second time by the French Socialist Party for the 2007 legislative election. She beat the UMP candidate Bruno Devaux in the second round and she is elected with 55,16% of votes. The former MP Patrick Herr had decided not to campaign for this election. At the National Assembly, she became vice-president of the Socialist and Radical Group in charge of sports.

In 2008, she campaigned for the municipal election in Rouen. She led a left-wing coalition and won in the first round with 55,79% of votes facing the outgoing mayor Pierre Albertini on March 9. On this occasion, she became one of the few women to manage a town of more than 100,000 inhabitants with [[Hélène Mandroux, Maryse Joissains, Martine Aubry, Adeline Hazan, Dominique Voynet, and Huguette Bello. She joined the association of France major cities (Association des Maires de Grandes Villes de France - AMGVF) where she was in charge of sports questions.

In July 2011, she supported Martine Aubry in the primary election of the French Socialist Party for the 2012 presidential election. She teamed with athlete Yohann Diniz regarding sports questions. After the primary election, she was chosen by François Hollande as manager of sports questions in his campaign team for the presidential election.

On 16 May 2012, she was appointed Minister of Sports, Youth, Popular Education and Community Life. Pierre Léautey replaced her as alternate MP. As a part of François Hollande’s 60 campaign promises, the rule of non-accumulation of mandates forced Valérie Fourneyron to resign from Rouen City Council. Yvon Robert took her succession on 27 June 2012.

After the resignation of Jean-Marc Ayrault as a Prime Minister, Valérie Fourneyron is appointed as Junior Minister for Crafts, Trade, Tourism and Social Economy in Manuel Valls's Cabinet on April 9, 2014.