Mounir Mahjoubi

Mounir Mahjoubi (born 1 March 1984) is a French entrepreneur[1] and politician of La République En Marche! (LREM) who served as a member of the National Assembly from June to July 2017 and from 2019 to 2022.[2] From 2017 until 2019 was the Secretary of State for Digital Affairs in the government of Prime Minister Édouard Philippe.[3]

Mounir Mahjoubi
Member of the National Assembly
for Paris's 16th constituency
In office
28 April 2019 – 21 June 2022
Preceded byDelphine O
Succeeded bySarah Legrain
In office
21 June 2017 – 21 July 2017
Preceded byJean-Christophe Cambadélis
Succeeded byDelphine O
Secretary of State for the Digital Sector
In office
17 May 2017 – 27 March 2019
PresidentEmmanuel Macron
Prime MinisterÉdouard Philippe
Preceded byChristophe Sirugue
Succeeded byCédric O
President of the French Digital Council
In office
5 February 2016 – 19 January 2017
Preceded byBenoît Thieulin
Succeeded byMarie Ekeland
Personal details
Born (1984-03-01) 1 March 1984
Paris, France
NationalityFrench
Moroccan
Political partyLREM (2017—present)
Other political
affiliations		PS (before 2017)
Alma materSciences Po

A former President of the French Digital Council, Mahjoubi resigned in January 2017 to join the presidential campaign of Emmanuel Macron as digital manager.[4]

Early life

Mahjoubi was born in the 12th arrondissement of Paris to working class Moroccan parents[5] who emigrated in the 1970s from Afourar, Beni Mellal. His father was a decorator and his mother a housekeeper.[6]

Mahjoubi was very technological as a child and even won an Young Inventors competition organized by children's science magazine, Science et Vie Junior[7] He was employed by internet provider, Club Internet, when he was 16 and the company eventually training him to be a network technician.[8] He was also employed as a trade union representative for the union, CFDT.[9]

Mahjoubi obtained a master's degree in finance and strategy from the Paris Institute of Political Studies in 2009.[10] He was a member of the Olivaint Conference, one of the oldest and private student societies in French history.[11]

Private sector career

Mahjoubi founded Equanum along with Guilhem Chéron and Marc-David Choukroun in 2010, a company which develops and gives farmers and artisans a dedicated Internet platform to sell their product. Mahjoubi left the company in 2012 to work on the Hollande campaign.[12]

Mahjoubi was Deputy General Manager for BETC Digital from 2013 to 2016.[13] In September 2016, he founded the "French Bureau", a start-up company that aims to accompany major groups in their innovation process.[14]

Political career

Early political activities

Mahjoubi joined the Socialist Party when he was 18.[15] In 2006, he helped create the "Segosphere" movement to assist 2007 Presidential candidate, Ségolène Royal.[16] He supported Francois Hollande's campaign for the 2012 presidential elections and even worked on it, assisting with the digital aspect.[16]

Mahjoubi was nominated by President Hollande as Chairman of the Conseil national du numérique (French Digital Council) in 2016, succeeding Benoît Thieulin. The priority projects of the council under his guidance were the digital transformation of Small and medium-sized enterprises and universities.[17]

La République En Marche! career

In 2017, he resigned from the council and joined En Marche! serving as digital manager of Macron's campaign team.[18][19] On 6 April 2017, Mahjoubi was selected as candidate for the 16th constituency of Paris for the legislative elections, running under La République en marche! label.[20][21] He ran against Jean-Christophe Cambadélis, the First Secretary of the Socialist Party, who had represented the district as lawmaker for 20 straight years.[22] Mahjoubi later won the seat with 51% of the vote in the second round.[4]

Mahjoubi was nominated Secretary of State for Digital Affairs by Édouard Philippe on 17 May 2017.[23] In a 2018 reshuffle of Philippe's government, Mahjoubi's department has been restructured; he now reports to Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire.[24]

Mahjoubi announced on 6 March 2019 his candidacy as LREM candidate for the 2020 Paris municipal election. To be able to devote himself to this candidacy, he left the government on 27 March and thus reinstated his seat in the National Assembly.[25] He subsequently served on the Committee on Foreign Affairs.[26] He did not compete in the 2022 legislative election.

Political positions

At a parliamentary hearing in 2020, Mahjoubi criticized the head of Amazon's France unit that the latter was "taking the piss" after telling a parliamentary committee that the company paid the French state 420 million euros ($508 million) in 2019 and had sales of 5.7 billion euros.[27]

Personal life

In 2015, Mahjoubi became a qualified cook after completing a Certificat d'aptitude professionnelle cuisine course.[28] On the International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia (17 May) 2018, Mahjoubi came out as gay via Twitter.[29]

References
  1. French election: Macron team complete rout with Assembly win BBC News, 19 June 2017.
  2. "Décret du 8 février 2016 portant nomination au Conseil national du numérique" (in French). Légifrance (French government). Retrieved 28 September 2022.
  3. Angelique Chrisafis in Paris (17 May 2017). "France's Macron selects his government from left, right and centre | World news". The Guardian. Retrieved 17 May 2017.
  4. l'Intérieur, Ministère de. "Résultats des élections législatives 2017". www.interieur.gouv.fr (in French). Retrieved 15 August 2017.
  5. "Mounir Mahjoubi, l'homme providentiel à la tête du Conseil national du numérique en France – JeuneAfrique.com". JeuneAfrique.com (in French). 3 June 2016. Retrieved 15 August 2017.
  6. Laabi, Mohamed (17 May 2017). "3 choses à savoir sur Mounir Mahjoubi, le Marocain du gouvernement Macron - H24info". H24info (in French). Retrieved 15 August 2017.
  7. Junior, Science & Vie (19 May 2017). "En 1997, @Mounir Mahjoubi, le nouveau secrétaire d'État au numérique, remportait notre concours Innovez grâce à sa règle à camembert :-)pic.twitter.com/EFhOqwipbB". @LeLaboSVJ. Retrieved 15 August 2017.
  8. "Qui est Mounir Mahjoubi, le nouveau secrétaire d'Etat au numérique ?". L'Obs (in French). Retrieved 15 August 2017.
  9. "Grève chez Club Internet : la CFDT s'accorde avec la direction | ITespresso.fr". ITespresso.fr (in French). 2 December 2005. Retrieved 15 August 2017.
  10. Po, Alumni Sciences. "l'Association des Sciences-Po - Fiche profil". www.sciences-po.asso.fr. Retrieved 15 August 2017.
  11. "Photos de la soirée " Play t-il? "". La Péniche (in French). Retrieved 15 August 2017.
  12. "Portrait #FH2012 : Mounir Mahjoubi, Electron libre..." 6 February 2016. Archived from the original on 6 February 2016. Retrieved 15 August 2017.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
  13. "Le Conseil national du numérique change de président". Le Monde.fr (in French). 2 February 2016. ISSN 1950-6244. Retrieved 15 August 2017.
  14. "FRENCH BUREAU (PARIS 2) Chiffre d'affaires, résultat, bilans sur SOCIETE.COM - 822172664". www.societe.com (in French). Retrieved 15 August 2017.
  15. "Mounir Mahjoubi, un geek d'origine marocaine à la tête du Conseil du numérique français". Al Huffington Post. Retrieved 15 August 2017.
  16. "" Je rêve que la France soit réconciliée avec ses entreprises "". leparisien.fr. 4 April 2007. Retrieved 15 August 2017.
  17. "Le nouveau Conseil national du numérique fixe ses priorités". lesechos.fr. 16 March 2016. Retrieved 15 August 2017.
  18. "Mounir Mahjoubi part du CNNum pour soutenir Emmanuel Macron". Silicon (in French). 20 January 2017. Retrieved 15 August 2017.
  19. "Le président du CNNum quitte ses fonctions pour les beaux yeux d'Emmanuel Macron". ZDNet France (in French). Retrieved 15 August 2017.
  20. Ronfaut, Lucie (11 May 2017). "Mounir Mahjoubi, un spécialiste du numérique nommé au gouvernement". Le Figaro (in French). ISSN 0182-5852. Retrieved 15 August 2017.
  21. "Les premiers candidats de la révolution démocratique | En Marche !". En Marche !. 6 April 2017. Retrieved 15 August 2017.
  22. Ingrid Melander and Elizabeth Pineau (5 June 2017), Macron factor set to leap from presidency to parliament Reuters.
  23. Chrisafis, Angelique (13 June 2017). "Mounir Mahjoubi, the 'geek' who saved Macron's campaign: 'We knew we were going to be attacked'". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 15 August 2017.
  24. Zachary Young (24 August 2018), Paris prosecutor launches probe into French culture minister Politico Europe.
  25. "Nathalie Loiseau, Benjamin Griveaux et Mounir Mahjoubi quittent le gouvernement". L'express (in French). 27 March 2019. Retrieved 5 June 2019.
  26. Mounir Mahjoubi National Assembly.
  27. Mathieu Rosemain and Ardee Napolitano (10 December 2020), Ex-French minister sneers at Amazon executive's justification of tax bill Reuters.
  28. "Resultat CAP 2015 Paris / Versailles / Créteil lettre M page 3 pour le certificat d'aptitude professionnelle CAP. Résultats gratuits et sans inscription - Bankexam.fr". www.bankexam.fr. Retrieved 15 August 2017.
  29. "French minister comes out as gay to fight homophobia". www.reuters.com. 18 May 2018. Retrieved 18 May 2018.
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