Antoine Armand
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Antoine Armand | |
|---|---|
 Armand in 2024 | |
| Member of the National Assembly for Haute-Savoie's 2nd constituency | |
| Assumed office 25 January 2025 | |
| Preceded by | Danièle Carteron |
| In office 22 June 2022 – 21 October 2024 | |
| Preceded by | Jacques Rey |
| Succeeded by | Danièle Carteron |
| Minister of the Economy, Finance and Industry | |
| In office 21 September 2024 – 23 December 2024 | |
| Prime Minister | Michel Barnier |
| Preceded by | Bruno Le Maire |
| Succeeded by | Éric Lombard |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 11 September 1991 |
| Party | Renaissance |
| Relations | Louis Armand (great-grandfather) |
| Education | Lycée Henri-IV |
| Alma mater | École Normale Supérieure Paris-Sorbonne University Paris School of Economics École nationale d'administration |
| Profession | Civil servant |
Antoine Armand (French pronunciation: [ɑ̃twan aʁmɑ̃]; born 10 September 1991) is a French civil servant and politician who served as the Minister of the Economy, Finance and Industrial and Digital Sovereignty from September to December 2024.[1] He previously represented the 2nd constituency of the Haute-Savoie department in the National Assembly from 2022 to 2024.[2] A member of Renaissance (RE, formerly La République En Marche!), he served as the president of the National Assembly Committee on Economic Affairs from 2022 to 2024.
In September 2024, French President Emmanuel Macron appointed Armand as Minister of the Economy, Finance and Industrial and Digital Sovereignty.[1] At 33 years old, Armand became one of the youngest ministers to hold this position in recent French history. His appointment came at a time when the government faced economic challenges and the need for fiscal management.[1]
He is the great-grandson of engineer, senior civil servant and French Resistance fighter Louis Armand (1905-1971), former Chairman of the SNCF, France's national state-owned railway company. He would become President of the European Atomic Energy Community (Euratom) from 1958 to 1959. He was elected member of the Académie Française in 1963.
Education
Following a high school education at the Lycée Camille Sée where he earned his Baccalauréat, Antoine Armand studied at the economics and literary Classes préparatoires aux grandes écoles (B/L) ('Higher school preparatory classes') at the prestigious Lycée Henri-IV in Paris (2009-2011[3]).
After a national exam, he read economics at the École normale supérieure de Paris (2011-2015). At the same time, he pursued a 2-year master's degree at the Paris School of Economics, his thesis focusing on German ordoliberalism (2012-2014). He also graduated from the Sorbonne in 2012 with a bachelor degree in philosophy. In 2015, he obtained a research master's degree in international relations at the Sorbonne (2013-2015), on the German responsibility for the Armenian genocide.
After another exam, he entered the École nationale d'administration (class of Georges Clemenceau, 2017-2018), a school training future senior civil cervants (many of them also become ministers, bankers, and Presidents).
